Remote Senior Backend Engineer (Python)

Top 3 reasons to join us

• Competitive salaries and bonuses
• We support your work-life balance
• Enjoy learning & career advancement opportunities

Job description

We are seeking backend engineer who is passionate about building highly scalable serverless apps with creative thinking and innovation. You will be working with state-of-the-art tech stack running on AWS. This role will work closely with business owners, Business Development Team, UI/UX Team, QA and DevOp Team. You love to learn as you go and can pick things up quickly. You have experience building API-driven / Serverless apps. You have strong technical capability to develop from modern UI component to API driven back-end code that can scale to power rapidly expanding and evolving marketplace platforms. If you are finding a team with passion for creating efficient, scalable, highly scalable microservices while having fun together, we are your destination.

Responsibilities

• Build & consuming REST API services (with the ability to create services preferred) in an AWS environment (Lambda, API Gateway, Serverless, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB)
• Work with third party JavaScript SDK and G2G API services
• Draft architectural decisions together with the Tech Lead and explore new technologies
• Have a direct impact on team processes by regular agile retrospectives
• Work well in teams, respecting and welcoming ideas from partners, business stakeholders, and technical experts
• You will have involvement and ownership from product ideation, design, development, to production deployment, support and maintenance
• Proposing solution alternatives, analyzing tradeoffs and making high impact product and engineering decisions
• You will be working on migrating existing monolith PHP application to serverless microservice apps and implementing improvements and new features to our various VueJS singlepage applications

Your skills and experience

• Minimum 3 years of experience in Python, HTML, CSS (SCSS preferred), and advanced JavaScript & microservices development
• 3+ years of practical programming experience with JavaScript Frameworks like Vue.js, React, React Native and jQuery
• You have strong expertise with MySQL, PostgreSQL, RDS Aurora and DynamoDB NOSQL databases
• Strong expertise in building backend services and APIs using Python or NodeJs
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and web services technology
• Version control with Git (Gitlab)
• Solid background in building complex customer-facing products coming along with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Be passionate about writing well-structured, efficient and maintainable code, actively keeping the quality of the codebase in check
• Experience with Test Driven Deployment (TDD) and CI/CD tools
• This position is remote / hybrid or open to relocate to Malaysia  

Why you'll love working here

• Great learning and teamwork 
• Excellent training program in place 
• Fun and friendly colleagues