Senior Backend Engineer - Marketplace Promotion (Discount)

About the role

Shopee's Marketplace Promotion team is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to build the discount and promotion features that drive platform traffic and seller orders. The team works on the homepage and banners, and collaborates with the APP team to improve user traffic efficiency.

Key responsibilities

• Analyse product requirements for features across different promotion domains.
• Design technical solutions with detailed analysis and documentation.
• Build large-scale distributed systems optimised for performance, availability and scalability, with critical monitoring.
• Write clean, testable, extendable and maintainable code following engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with other team members to deliver the projects.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field.
• At least 2 years of experience in backend development.
• Strong logical and analytical thinking skills.

Required skills

• Hands-on experience with Golang, Python, Java or C++.
• Understanding of data structures and algorithms, computer networks, operating systems, databases and computer science fundamentals.
• Distributed systems, caching mechanisms and concurrency.
• Relational databases such as MySQL, and NoSQL and event streaming platforms such as Redis and Kafka.
• Network protocols such as HTTP, TCP and UDP.