Company / Role Overview
This role sits within a technology-driven organisation building and scaling modern backend platforms that support complex, high-volume business processes. The team operates in a cloud-native, microservices-based environment with a strong emphasis on clean architecture, system reliability, and long-term maintainability. The position is well-suited for a senior backend engineer with deep hands-on expertise who is progressing toward a technical leadership or architecture-focused career path, contributing not only through delivery but also through architectural thinking and engineering standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using modern server-side languages and frameworks, with a focus on performance, reliability, and extensibility.
- Apply established software engineering principles, clean coding practices, and proven design patterns to ensure high-quality, maintainable systems.
- Contribute to backend and application architecture decisions, balancing technical robustness with practical delivery needs.
- Build and enhance microservices-based systems, including API design and service-to-service communication patterns.
- Design and maintain secure authentication and authorisation mechanisms, including role-based access control and token-based security models.
- Develop and support workflow orchestration or workflow engine logic to handle complex, multi-step business processes.
- Collaborate on database design and optimisation, ensuring data integrity, performance, and scalability across core services.
- Uphold engineering excellence through code reviews, technical discussions, and continuous improvements in performance, security, and automation.
Job Requirements
Must-have requirements:
- 6-10 years of hands-on experience in backend software engineering within production environments.
- Strong proficiency in server-side development using modern backend technologies and frameworks (including Node.js-based frameworks and Go).
- Solid experience designing and operating microservices architectures in cloud-based environments.
- Strong working knowledge of relational databases, including schema design, query optimisation, and performance tuning.
- Practical experience with containerisation, orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines in backend environments.
- Hands-on exposure to cloud platforms (preferably AWS) and core services used for backend and microservices deployments.
- Strong understanding of software design principles, clean architecture, backend security, and authentication/authorisation concepts.
Nice-to-have requirements:
- Experience with event-driven or messaging-based architectures.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools and automated environment provisioning.
- Exposure to domain-driven or alternative architectural patterns.
- Experience designing for high performance, scalability, and distributed system resilience.
Soft skills and mindset:
- Strong problem-solving ability with a system-level and architectural perspective.
- Clear communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Ownership-oriented mindset, taking responsibility for solutions from design through to production.
If this role aligns with your experience and career goals, please send your application to [Confidential Information].
Argyll Scott Asia is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
