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.

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

• At least 3 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

ShopBacker Traits

• Agency - We take ownership and act, rather than waiting for permission. When something's blocking progress, we find a way through it and follow through until it's done.
• Judgement - We aim for high-impact decisions, not just easy wins, and we put the bigger picture ahead of individual interests. That means moving quickly and confidently, while staying thoughtful about when a call really matters.
• Learning Velocity - We pick up new skills fast and let go of old habits just as quickly when something better comes along. We benchmark ourselves against the best and keep raising our own bar.
• Tenacity - We stay in it when things get hard, keeping a level head under pressure. We debate openly before deciding, then commit fully — and support each other along the way.

What's in it for ShopBackers

• Career growth 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 performance.
• Candid, open, and collaborative culture where feedback is valued.

We are committed to protecting your data and ensuring fairness in our recruitment process. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help our team review applications, analyse resumes, match candidates to roles, generate interview notes, and assess responses. These tools assist our recruiters and interviewers and they do not make final hiring decisions. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If an assessment is part of your process, we may (with your consent) capture screen activity and/or webcam images during the test to help verify test integrity. We do not use AI to infer your emotions or sensitive traits. We process personal data lawfully, securely, and transparently in line with applicable data-protection laws and our commitment to fair employment. You can ask questions or exercise your rights including to request human review or to challenge an outcome by contacting [email protected] . 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!