EXECUTIVE, BACKEND DEVELOPMENT

• Work closely under the guidance and leadership of a Senior Backend Developer.
• Receive assigned tasks, technical requirements, priorities, and implementation guidance from the Senior Backend Developer.
• Participate in the development of various business modules, including APIs, user management, payment, campaign, and other backend services.
• Developing, maintain, and improving backend services, APIs, system performance, optimize backend systems, scalability, reliability, and server-side application logic based on assigned requirements.
• Create and maintain REST APIs or other service integrations.
• Work with databases, authentication systems, caching, queues, scheduled tasks, and common infrastructure components such as MySQL.
• Integrate third-party APIs, and internal platform services when required.
• Collaborate with frontend developers, and other engineering team members to understand requirements, deliver high-quality software solutions, and complete assigned features.
• Participate and maintain in code reviews, write clean, readable, tested, and improve code based on feedback from the Senior Backend Developer and other team members.
• Assist with deployment, testing, logging, monitoring, and production issue investigation.
• Assist in document API behavior, backend logic, deployment steps, and important technical decisions when required.
• Troubleshoot backend bugs, API errors, database issues, and basic performance problems.
• Participate in any troubleshooting and resolving technical issues with guidance from senior team members.
• Learn new technologies and development tools based on project requirements and guidance from senior team members.
• To carry out any other duty & responsibility as needed for which the company may assign from time to time.

REQUIREMENTS

• Must possess a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Minimum 1–2 years of backend development experience.
• Basic understanding of backend development, backend programming language, and client-server architecture concepts, including APIs, databases, authentication, caching, queues or similar services.
• Good understanding of programming fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming concepts.
• Experience building backend features, APIs, applications, or complete project modules is an added advantage.
• Basic knowledge and familiarity with of relational databases such as MySQL and SQL development.
• Basic familiarity with Git, GitHub, and deployment workflows is an added advantage.
• Python experience for backend development, scripting, automation, or internal tools is an advantage.
• Able to collaborate with frontend and mobile developers on API integration, authentication, error handling, and application behavior.
• Proficient in using Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Proficiency verbal and writing in English, Bahasa Malaysia, and Chinese would be an added advantage.
• Able to use AI development tools to improve productivity while checking the accuracy, security, and quality of generated code.
• Strong learning ability, logical thinking, good problem-solving skills & communication, responsibility, and interest in backend engineering.
• Able to adapt to different projects, industries, technical requirements, and changing priorities.
• Good coding habits and willingness to learn new technologies.