Senior Software Engineer - Backend
Our Journey The ShopBack Group is Asia-Pacific’s leading shopping, rewards, and payments platform, serving over 20 million active members across 13 markets. In 2025, the Group continued its global growth with its expansion into North America. Driven by the vision to make every day more rewarding, ShopBack is dedicated to saving members money and time, and delivering delight every day. The platform also enables merchants and brands to engage with their members in a cost-effective manner. Founded in 2014, ShopBack now powers over US$5.5 billion in annual sales for over 20,000 online and in-store partners, and has rewarded shoppers with more than US$900 million (over S$1 billion) in Cashback to date. Through its innovative offerings, ShopBack continues to create value for both members and merchants. Notably, its payment solution, ShopBack Pay, offers members a convenient and rewarding payment option at checkout.
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 7+ 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.