Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

About the role

minden.ai, a technology venture founded by Temasek in partnership with DFI Retail Group and coalition partners including DBS Bank, Cold Storage, Gojek, Mandai Wildlife Group and Singtel, is looking for a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer (Backend). The role suits someone who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, building reliable and scalable systems, and collaborating with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy and maintain scalable, secure and highly available backend services and distributed systems.
• Own the full software development lifecycle, from ideation through deployment and maintenance.
• Work with Product Managers, designers and other engineering teams to understand requirements and deliver high-quality solutions.
• Take part in system architecture and technical design discussions, balancing scalability, performance and maintainability.
• Build and maintain APIs, microservices, event-driven systems and data processing pipelines for large-scale consumer products.
• Partner with QA and DevOps/SRE teams to embed quality, observability, security and operational excellence.
• Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis and improve system reliability.
• Optimize performance, scalability, reliability and cost across application, database and infrastructure layers.
• Maintain technical documentation and drive engineering best practices such as code quality, testing automation, CI/CD and observability.
• Mentor junior engineers and stay up to date with emerging technologies.
• Opportunity to learn frontend technologies.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent training, fellowship or work experience.
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience with product backend development.
• Experience delivering software systems used by millions of users.
• Experience debugging and diagnosing distributed systems and optimizing software performance.
• Experience in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities is an advantage.

Required skills

• Backend development with APIs, microservices and event-driven systems.
• Bonus: Kubernetes, containers and cloud-native technologies.
• Bonus: data engineering platforms, streaming systems or event processing frameworks.
• Bonus: building high-availability, low-latency, secure systems.