Software Engineer - Backend

Our Journey
The ShopBack Group is Asia-Pacific's leading shopping and rewards platform, trusted by over 20 million active members across 13 markets, including Germany and the United States. Driven by the vision to make every day more rewarding, ShopBack saves members money and time with more ways to earn and more to do with what they earn, and empowers merchants and brand partners to effectively engage its members. Founded in Singapore in 2014, ShopBack now powers over US$5.5 billion in annual sales and half a million transactions a day for more than 20,000 online and in-store partners.

Your Adventure Ahead

• You have consistently led and delivered large scale projects.
• Contribute to the ideation, technical design, implementation, and testing of product features
• Produce high quality software following good architecture and design principles that are scalable
• Design & deliver thoughtfully crafted clean APIs to drive the interactions between our client applications and backend services
• Collaborate with product, data and design to define the future of the ShopBack experience
• Comfortably lead and mentor other software engineers.
• Encourages others to follow engineering best practices.
• Analyze requirements well, come up with solutions, and explain trade-offs.

Essentials to Succeed

• At least 3 years of experience developing consumer facing web applications
• Proven experience designing complex distributed systems, management products or business applications
• Hands-on experience working with NodeJS (Preferred)
• Experience building and deploying applications and services into cloud environments (AWS highly desired)
• Strong experience leading design and implementation of robust and highly scalable web services
• Demonstrated use of Generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude) to develop new or improve workflows, enhance productivity, and drive efficiency at scale
• Ability to work effectively in a fast paced, complex technical environment with high adaptability and flexibility

Technologies We Use & Love

• Cloud: AWS
• Infra: Kubernetes
• Programming languages: NodeJS / Typescript, Java, Kotlin, Python
• Relational database: Postgres
• Message queue: Kafka, SQS
• Continuous Integration: Gitlab / Jenkins
• Monitoring: Prometheus / DataDog
• Big Data: Redshift, Spark, S3, etc.
• Communication: Slack
• Project Management: JIRA / Confluence
• Other technologies:
• Knative Eventing / Serving
• Debezium + Kafka Connect

ShopBacker Traits
Agency - We take ownership and act, rather than waiting for permission. When something's blocking progress, we find a way through it and follow through until it's done.
Judgement - We aim for high-impact decisions, not just easy wins, and we put the bigger picture ahead of individual interests. That means moving quickly and confidently, while staying thoughtful about when a call really matters.
Learning Velocity - We pick up new skills fast and let go of old habits just as quickly when something better comes along. We benchmark ourselves against the best and keep raising our own bar.
Tenacity - We stay in it when things get hard, keeping a level head under pressure. We debate openly before deciding, then commit fully — and support each other along the way.
What's in it for ShopBackers
Career growth opportunities to take on greater challenges that help you realise your ambitions.
Be part of a winning team on a journey to global scale.
Competitive compensation based on performance.
Candid, open, and collaborative culture where feedback is valued.