Senior Backend Engineer, Marketplace Operations

Shopee — Singapore · Posted ~22 hours ago

Senior Full-time

Skills

Backend engineering Distributed systems Scalable system design Multi-market architecture System reliability Cross-functional collaboration Backend services Cloud architecture

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

Join a senior backend engineering team responsible for critical marketplace order operations. You will design and build scalable distributed systems, tackle complex multi-market architecture challenges, improve reliability and extensibility, and collaborate across engineering and business teams to deliver high-impact platform capabilities.

Highlights

Work on large-scale distributed systems serving a global marketplace, with strong ownership of technical roadmaps, system scalability, reliability, and cross-functional engineering initiatives.

Description

About The Team The Marketplace Order Operations team powers the critical order related features of Shopee as a platform through innovation and technology. In our pursuit to shape the way buyers and sellers connect with each other, we engineer scalable, reliable and extensible systems that evolve with the dynamic e-commerce landscape. As we scale to the next engineering frontier for the global market, we continuously solve unique challenges such as multi-market architecture design, highly sustainable systems, and core functional capabilities for the department. Our tech leaders take responsibility for products, define engineering roadmaps, and work with cross-functional teams to achieve excellence in product performance and technical sustainability. Job Description Realizing business goals through implementing features to Shopee as a platform, including but not limited to return and refund, and clearing and settlement.Designing and building distributed systems optimized for performance, availability, and user experience.Writing high-quality, clean, and maintainable code and respecting engineering best practices (unit testing, source control, continuous integration, automation, design patterns, etc.)Researching, proposing and executing projects to enhance system functionalities, development processes, and shared middlewares.Collaborating in a highly cross-functional environment with fellow Software Engineers, Product Managers, Quality Assurance Engineers, and Operation Engineers to deliver impact. Requirements Bachelor's or a higher degree in Computer Science or related fieldsMinimum 2+ years’ relevant experience in backend server developmentExperienced in framing problems effectively and context engineering to guide AI models to generate reliable codeFamiliar with commonly used languages, such as Golang / Python / C++ / JavaIn-depth understanding of Data Structures and Algorithms, Networking, OS and other Computer Science fundamentalsFamiliar with commonly used Databases, such as MySQLFamiliar with commonly used middlewares, such as Redis and KafkaFamiliar with HTTP/TCP protocolsFamiliar with XML/JSON/Protocol BuffersFamiliar with distributed systems, performance tuning, massive concurrency handling, and caching mechanisms