Senior Backend Software Engineer

About the role

foodpanda, part of the Delivery Hero Group, is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join its Foundation Tribe and support its growing regional Product team in Singapore. You will work in an international team of talented and motivated people.

Key responsibilities

• Diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges across software and infrastructure layers, focusing on performance, reliability and scalability.
• Contribute to the design and evolution of system architecture, keeping it scalable and adaptable to future technologies.
• Drive code quality through coding standards, thorough code reviews and automated testing frameworks.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines and deliverables within autonomous teams, and work in a cross-functional, international team.
• Take part in architectural discussions, open reviews and knowledge sharing, and act as an active partner to Product management.
• Mentor junior engineers and share technical knowledge and best practices.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field; an MBA or relevant postgraduate degree is a plus.
• About 7-9 years of experience building complex, distributed, large-scale backend systems, including microservices, event-driven architectures and cloud computing.
• Good understanding and independent use of cloud environments, CI/CD, testing and validation.
• Excellent written and spoken English, able to collaborate across international teams.

Required skills

• Proficiency in Golang (mandatory).
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles such as SOLID, Hexagonal Architecture and Design-Driven Development.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) and containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Relational databases (normalization, ACID, indexing) and key-value stores (Redis, Elasticsearch).
• Performance monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
• Automated testing (unit, integration and functional); CI/CD pipeline experience is an added advantage.

What we offer

• A dynamic, challenging work environment with a vibrant, international team.
• Responsibility from day one in a fast-growing global company.
• Free food, health and dental insurance, and learning and development opportunities.