Senior Backend Engineer (Java)

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Job Overview

We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to take a technical leadership role across teams and domains. You’ll be responsible for architecting and driving the development of scalable, resilient systems that directly align with business objectives. As a domain expert, you’ll provide thought leadership, mentor other engineers, and shape engineering best practices across the organization. This role is ideal for a highly experienced backend engineer who is passionate about building high-performance systems and enabling long-term technical excellence

Responsibilities: 

• System Architecture: Design and review scalable, fault-tolerant, and secure system architectures, including multi-region disaster recovery and strong data consistency.
• Technical Leadership: Provide domain expertise and guidance across multiple teams; drive cross-functional architectural discussions.
• Business Alignment: Translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions, considering long-term product and company strategy.
• Reusable Components: Build high-quality, reusable components and establish best practices to boost team-wide efficiency.
• Process Innovation: Define and implement domain-level standards, governance rules, and process improvements (e.g., microservice design, observability, code quality).
• Mentorship & Collaboration: Coach engineers, drive knowledge sharing, and cultivate a culture of continuous improvement and innovation

Requirements:

• Education Requirement:
  • Bachelor’s Degree of Computing, Software Engineering, IT or related field

• Skills Requirement:
  • Experience: Minimum 6+ years of experience in backend system design and development, with a proven track record of delivering mission-critical systems.
  • Tech Stack Expertise: Deep expertise in Java, with mastery of backend frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot, WebFlux), messaging systems (e.g., Kafka), and distributed databases (SQL/NoSQL, Redis, etc.).
  • Architectural Skills: Experience designing and scaling large distributed systems with a focus on performance, availability, security, and resilience.
  • Process Leadership: Able to define and implement engineering standards and technical guidelines at the system/domain level.
  • Innovation & Problem Solving: Continuously evaluates new technologies and integrates them strategically to enhance systems and processes.
  • Risk & Impact Awareness: Anticipates edge cases and long-term impacts, and incorporates robustness, observability, and compliance from the design stage.
• Soft Skills:
  • Influence &aeadership: Persuasively drives adoption of best practices and standards across teams and stakeholders.
  • Decision-Making: Makes informed, strategic decisions backed by technical expertise and business impact analysis.
  • Communication: Clearly and effectively communicates complex ideas and listens actively to facilitate constructive discussions.
  • Collaboration: Enables cross-team alignment and contributes to a culture of ownership, transparency, and innovation

Benefits:

1) Flexi Allowance – min RM 1,000 (depends on grade) – yearly

2) AL – min 16 days (depends on grade)

3) Medical – RM 100 per receipt/RM 1,000 limits per year

4) Dental – RM 300

5) Optical – RM 300

6) Parking Claim / Transport Claim – RM 130

7) Group insurance

Job Type: Full-time

Working Day

MON & FRI WFH 
TUE-THU OFFICE

Working Hour

9:00am to 6:00pm

Salary Pay:
RM7,000 – RM11,000

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