Role Description

The Company
Our client is a local fintech startup focused on digital wealth management.

Location
Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia

Job Summary
The Backend Engineer will be designing APIs, building resilient services, optimising performance and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ship impactful features. Experienced with strong fundamentals in TypeScript and hands-on experience building and maintaining distributed microservices in GCP.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, maintain, and improve backend services using Typescript in a microservices architecture, prioritising availability, scalability, latency and efficiency of platform
• Work with the back-end engineering team to explore and create new design / architectures geared towards scale, maintainability, and performance
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards
• Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications
• Write unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to ensure code quality and reliability

Qualifications

• 3+ years backend engineering experience, preferably in distributed microservices architectures
• Strong grasp of software engineering fundamentals
• Strong TypeScript skills, with deep understanding of JavaScript fundamentals
• Experience deploying and operating services on GCP (or other cloud providers)
• Solid understanding of REST API design and best practices
• Familiarity with message queues/event streaming (e.g., Pub/Sub, Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Experience with MySQL and MongoDB (or other NoSQL databases)
• Experience with containerisation and CI/CD pipelines
• Knowledge of unit/integration testing frameworks
• Excellent verbal communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience working with fintech or regulated industry is a plus