Software Engineer - Backend

Our Journey The ShopBack Group is Asia-Pacific’s leading shopping, rewards, and payments platform, serving over 60 million shoppers across 13 markets. In 2025, the Group continued its global growth with its expansion into North America. Driven by the vision to make every day more rewarding, ShopBack is dedicated to saving members money and time, and delivering delight every day. The platform also enables merchants and brands to engage with their members in a cost-effective manner. Founded in 2014, ShopBack now powers over US$5.5 billion in annual sales for over 20,000 online and in-store partners, and has rewarded shoppers with more than US$800 million (over S$1 billion) in Cashback to date. Through its innovative offerings, ShopBack continues to create value for both members and merchants. Notably, its payment solution, ShopBack Pay, offers members a convenient and rewarding payment option at checkout. About the role: At ShopBack, our engineering teams build scalable and operable platforms serving eCommerce traffic around the world and deliver world-class product experience. You will join a diverse and talented team of engineers from many different countries with great ambitions to impact the eCommerce landscape. We are seeking team members who strive to solve the hard problems, take pride in delivering world-class products, and are strong team players.   You are someone who is resilient, self driven and highly motivated. You want to see the impact of your work making a difference every day. You find passion in the craft and are constantly seeking improvement and better ways to solve tough problems. ShopBackers' DNA Grit - We tackle all challenges head-on, working together to solve problems and achieve success. Hunger - We value hard work, and having relentless drive. Speed - We move fast and have a bias for action, all to deliver maximum impact. Impact - We focus on results, always aiming for the best possible outcomes and timelines. Growth - We embrace a growth mindset, constantly striving to learn, improve, and excel in our roles.   Exclusively for ShopBackers Career progression paths and opportunities to take on greater challenges that help you realise your ambitions. Be part of a winning team on a journey to global scale. Competitive compensation based on your performance. Candid, open, and collaborative culture where feedback is valued, for everyone to grow and improve every day. ShopBack is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable laws. Join our team and help us make a difference! country: CN all locations: [Shenzhen, China] commitment: Full-time department: 11. Engineering location: Shenzhen, China team: Engineering - SZTG Your Adventure Ahead: You have consistently led and delivered large scale projects.  Contribute to the ideation, technical design, implementation, and testing of product features Produce high quality software following good architecture and design principles that are scalable Design & deliver thoughtfully crafted clean APIs to drive the interactions between our client applications and backend services Collaborate with product, data and design to define the future of the ShopBack experience Comfortably lead and mentor other software engineers. Encourages others to follow engineering best practices. Analyze requirements well, come up with solutions, and explain trade-offs. Essentials to Succeed: 3 to 5 years of experience developing consumer facing web applications Proven experience designing complex distributed systems, management products or business applications Hands-on experience working with NodeJS (Preferred) Experience building and deploying applications and services into cloud environments (AWS highly desired) Strong experience leading design and implementation of robust and highly scalable web services Demonstrated use of Generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude) to develop new or improve workflows, enhance productivity, and drive efficiency at scale Ability to work effectively in a fast paced, complex technical environment with high adaptability and flexibility Technologies We Use & Love: Cloud: AWS Infra: Kubernetes Programming languages: NodeJS / Typescript, Java, Kotlin, Python Relational database: Postgres Message queue: Kafka, SQS Continuous Integration:  Gitlab / Jenkins Monitoring: Prometheus / DataDog Big Data: Redshift, Spark, S3, etc.  Communication: Slack Project Management: JIRA / Confluence Other technologies:  Knative Eventing / Serving Debezium + Kafka Connect