Backend Engineer
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Summary
Backend engineer in Kuala Lumpur building and maintaining the services behind live client systems: APIs, third-party integrations, and background jobs. Requires commercial experience with a server-side language and a relational database, with an emphasis on testing and handling failure cases.
You build and maintain the services behind client systems: the APIs the interface calls, the integrations with third parties, and the scheduled work that keeps data moving. These systems are live, so the work has real users attached.
What you will do
- Build API endpoints and background jobs against a data model you help shape.
- Integrate with third party systems and handle the cases where they fail or go quiet.
- Write the tests that make a fortnightly release boring.
- Pick up production issues on the systems your team runs.
What you will bring
- Commercial experience with a server-side language and a relational database.
- Comfort reading someone else's code before changing it.
- An eye for the failure cases, not only the happy path.
- Clear written English, since much of the work is agreeing behaviour in writing.