Senior Backend Engineer, Social team

Description

We are looking for a backend developer who will be focusing on BandLab social features such as Feed, Notifications, Chat, Sharing, Live streaming, and Comments. You will be part of a high-performing and highly motivated backend team. You’re going to brainstorm with product managers, designers, backend, and frontend engineers to conceptualize and build new features for our large and growing user base. Be ready to design, implement, and manage web services that impact millions of users. The role will help you grow in an environment passionate about knowledge-sharing and code review.

We are a diverse and distributed team, where some roles are tied to particular regions or time zones to ensure effective connection and collaboration during work hours. If you’re looking for a remote work option from outside of Singapore, for this role, we operate within the GMT+2 to GMT+9 time zones.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-end ownership of systems you build: estimating, designing, developing, code review, documentation, testing, deploying, monitoring, and performance optimization
• Collaborate with team members on design and implementation
• Communicate with other teams during the analysis and development phase
• Design and build APIs
• Write unit, functional, and end-to-end tests
• Develop new and maintain the existing features
• Maintain the infrastructure of high-load Social services (Feed, Chat, etc.) that serves millions of users
• Work with a large codebase written in .NET C#
• Improve scalability and performance of the existing services
• Optimize the costs of the existing cloud infrastructure (Azure and AWS)

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Previous experience with building social networks and/or SaaS
• Proficiency in at least one of .NET (C#/F#), Java, Node.js, Go
• Hands-on experience building highly scalable distributed systems with microservice architecture
• Working experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Experience working with cloud services (AWS/Azure) and cloud-native applications
• Understanding of software engineering best practices including unit testing, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and source control
• Commitment to high-quality and maintainable software

Nice-to-haves:

• Hands-on experience with serverless technologies and techniques
• Practical experience with IaC (e.g. Azure ARM, AWS CloudFormation, Pulumi)
• Understanding of CQRS and Event Sourcing

Location and Benefits

We are a diverse and distributed team, where some roles are tied to particular regions or time zones to ensure effective connection and collaboration during work hours.

If you’re looking for a remote work option from outside of Singapore, for this role, we operate within the GMT+2 to GMT+9 time zones.

Singapore HQ benefits:

• Healthcare, dental insurance
• Quarterly bonus
• Paid annual leave, sick leave, childcare leave, volunteer leave and maternity leave
• BandLab Technologies staff discount

Remote work benefits:

• Paid annual leave