Executive recruitment firm Monroe Consulting Group's Technology Division is partnering with a FinTech company that provides broad range of consumer financial services across Malaysia.
Our distinguished client is currently seeking a highly skilled Backend Developer/ Backend Engineer. The ideal candidate should be well-versed in Javascript & Typescript..
The candidate will be designing APIs, building resilient services, optimizing performance, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ship impactful features.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, build, maintain, and improve backend services using Typescript in a microservices architecture, prioritizing availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of company's platform.
- Work with the back end engineering team to explore and create new design / architectures geared towards scale, maintainability, and performance.
- Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards.
- Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications.
- Write unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to ensure code quality and reliability.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 3+ years backend engineering experience, preferably in distributed microservices architectures.
- Strong grasp of software engineering fundamentals.
- Strong TypeScript skills, with deep understanding of JavaScript fundamentals.
- Experience deploying and operating services on GCP (or other cloud providers).
- Solid understanding of REST API design and best practices.
- Familiarity with message queues/event streaming (e.g., Pub/Sub, Kafka, RabbitMQ).
- Experience with MySQL and MongoDB (or other NoSQL databases).
- Experience with containerisation and CI/CD pipeline.
- Knowledge of unit/integration testing frameworks.
- Excellent verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience working with fintech or regulated industry is a plus
