Senior Software Engineer

Salt is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer for 6 months & extendable contract role for one of the global employment marketplace in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. You will develop software in a product & platform subdomain, contribute to engineering quality, coach and mentor other software engineers, and demonstrate passion for your craft through user centric, reliable, and scalable solutions.

Key accountabilities:

• Plan & lead technical initiatives within the team, providing clarity and support for other software engineers to deliver solutions that are fit for purpose.
• Build, test, deploy, and maintain quality software from development to production, with clean, secure, and well-tested code that adheres to best current practices.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence, ensuring systems are built and run in compliant, efficient, reliable, and resilient manner.
• Role model effective incident management & resolution through a combination of deep domain expertise and technical troubleshooting ability.
• Collaborate effectively and empathetically with peers and stakeholders, providing space for diverse opinions and feedback.
• Foster a positive team environment, contributing to the safety, work-life balance, and wellbeing of team members.
• Mentor new hires and support the growth of team members.

Qualifications : Essential skills & experience

• Modern engineering practice: Proficiency in building and maintaining software in a build-run team context using two or more modern programming languages. Experience with data modelling, design patterns, and uplifting team engineering culture.
• Cloud & distributed computing: Proficiency in design considerations and failure scenarios for distributed computing. Experience with microservice architectures that mix synchronous (HTTP server) and asynchronous (background worker) components in a cloud environment.
• AWS technologies: Experience in a business-critical environment using AWS services, including DynamoDB, ECS (Fargate), Lambda, RDS (Aurora PostgreSQL), SNS, and SQS.
• CI/CD & observability: Demonstrated ability to apply and improve continuous integration & continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices. Experience with logging, monitoring, and alerting to uphold software reliability and performance.
• Technical leadership: Experience leading the end-to-end delivery of technical initiatives, empowering other engineers by balancing support and autonomy, and providing a long-term view of the technical direction of software systems.
• Proficiency in developing Apollo GraphQL servers
• Experience with data analytics (Amazon Athena, SQL), distributed caching (Cloudflare CDN, Amazon ElastiCache), edge compute (Cloudflare workers, Lambda@Edge), event-driven architectural components (Event Bridge, Kinesis, Step Functions), security infrastructure (IdP, WAF), and Kubernetes.
• Ability to contribute across the full stack, from developing new back-end CRUD services to query engines, data pipelines, and administrative user interfaces.
• At least 8+ years of relevant working experience

If this role sounds like an ideal job move, please hit the apply button with your latest resume.

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Regret only shortlisted candidates will be notified

CEI No: R1659595 / EA No: 07C3147

Salt is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.