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Staff Software Engineer - Large-Scale Distributed Systems

Marina Bay,
remote
Permanent
17000 - 20000 SGD / Monthly
The Company Our client is a leading global e-commerce brand expanding its engineering team to build and enhance large-scale distributed systems powering a high-volume international e-commerce platform. This is a rare opportunity for an exceptionally talented Staff / Principal Software Engineer to take a senior technical leadership role in shaping highly scalable, resilient, and commercially critical platform systems. The company offers a remote / work-from-home model, world-class benefits, modern engineering practices, and the opportunity to work with advanced technologies across cloud, data, search, messaging, observability, and AI-assisted development. The Role<ul><li>Lead the design and delivery of large-scale distributed systems supporting a global e-commerce platform.</li><li>Own and influence architecture decisions across backend services, platform engineering, event-driven systems, cloud-native services, and data-intensive applications.</li><li>Build and scale core platform capabilities across retail transactions, order management, fulfilment, product management, search, recommendations, pricing, promotions, and related e-commerce domains.</li><li>Provide hands-on technical leadership while remaining actively involved in system design, coding, code reviews, troubleshooting, and production optimisation.</li><li>Design resilient, fault-tolerant, observable, and high-performance services using AWS, MongoDB, Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch / OpenSearch, CloudWatch, and OpenTelemetry.</li><li>Define engineering standards for scalability, reliability, performance, security, maintainability, testing, and operational excellence.</li><li>Partner with engineering leadership, product teams, architects, DevOps, data teams, and business stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.</li><li>Guide teams on system design, service boundaries, API design, event-driven patterns, data modelling, caching strategies, search architecture, and distributed systems trade-offs.</li><li>Drive improvements across observability, monitoring, alerting, tracing, incident response, and production support practices.</li><li>Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, helping them improve technical depth, architectural thinking, code quality, and delivery discipline.</li><li>Champion modern software engineering practices including automated testing, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, technical documentation, and secure development.</li><li>Professionally leverage AI-assisted engineering tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar tools to improve engineering productivity, technical documentation, code review quality, and development velocity.</li><li>Identify technical debt, platform risks, performance bottlenecks, and scalability constraints, then drive pragmatic and sustainable solutions.</li><li>Contribute to long-term engineering strategy, platform roadmap, and technology selection.</li></ul> Your Profile<ul><li>10-15 years of professional software engineering experience, with strong experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems.</li><li>Proven experience as a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, Lead Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer, Platform Engineer, or similar senior technical role.</li><li>Strong hands-on backend engineering experience in one or more modern programming languages such as Java, Kotlin, Go, Node.js, Python, TypeScript, or similar.</li><li>Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architecture, API design, data consistency, fault tolerance, and scalability patterns.</li><li>Strong hands-on experience with AWS and cloud-native system design.</li><li>Production experience with MongoDB or other NoSQL databases.</li><li>Strong experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming / messaging technologies.</li><li>Experience with Redis or similar caching / in-memory data platforms.</li><li>Experience with Elasticsearch / OpenSearch for search, indexing, data discovery, or recommendation-related use cases.</li><li>Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, tracing, logging, and production diagnostics using CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, or similar tools.</li><li>Experience designing highly available, low-latency, resilient systems operating at significant scale.</li><li>Strong understanding of security, reliability engineering, CI/CD, automated testing, and DevOps collaboration.</li><li>Ability to influence technical direction across teams without relying only on formal authority.</li><li>Strong mentoring capability with the ability to raise engineering standards across a high-performing team.</li><li>Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.</li><li>High proficiency with modern AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar tools, with the ability to apply them responsibly in a professional engineering environment.</li></ul> Apply TodayPlease send your resume, in WORD format only and quote reference number DC13470981, by clicking the apply button. Please note that only short-listed candidates will be contacted.Robert Half International Pte Ltd. Co. Registration no.: 200612189E | EA Licence no.: 07C5595 | Dmitriy Chervinskyi EA Registration no.: R22108655By clicking 'apply', you give your express consent that Robert Half may use your personal information to process your job application and to contact you from time to time for future employment opportunities. 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2026-07-16T02:02:25Z

Backend Software Engineer | Distributed Systems

Singapore River,
remote
Permanent
12000 - 15000 SGD / Monthly
The CompanyOur client is a leading global e-commerce brand expanding its engineering team to build and enhance large-scale distributed systems powering a high-volume international e-commerce platform. The engineering team works across a broad range of business and platform domains, including retail transactions, order management and fulfilment, product management, search and recommendation engineering, pricing and promotions, platform engineering, and cloud-native services on AWS. The company offers a remote / work-from-home model, world-class benefits, modern engineering practices, and the opportunity to work with advanced technologies across cloud, data, search, messaging, observability, and AI-assisted development. The Role<ul><li>Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend services and distributed systems for a global e-commerce platform.</li><li>Build reliable and high-performing services across domains including retail transactions, order management, fulfilment, product management, search, recommendations, pricing, and promotions.</li><li>Develop cloud-native applications and services on AWS with a strong focus on scalability, resilience, performance, security, and cost efficiency.</li><li>Work with modern distributed technologies including MongoDB, Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch / OpenSearch, CloudWatch, and OpenTelemetry.</li><li>Build and maintain APIs, event-driven services, microservices, and backend workflows supporting business-critical platform operations.</li><li>Improve system performance, reliability, availability, observability, and operational excellence across production services.</li><li>Implement monitoring, logging, tracing, diagnostics, and alerting practices to support highly reliable production systems.</li><li>Collaborate with product managers, engineering leaders, architects, DevOps, QA, and other software engineers to deliver high-impact technical solutions.</li><li>Participate in system design discussions, technical design reviews, architecture decisions, and code reviews.</li><li>Write clean, maintainable, scalable, secure, and well-tested code aligned with modern software engineering standards.</li><li>Use modern AI-assisted engineering tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar tools to improve productivity, development speed, code quality, and documentation.</li><li>Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across distributed systems, production environments, integrations, and cloud services.</li><li>Contribute to continuous improvement across CI/CD, automation, testing, observability, documentation, and engineering best practices.</li></ul> Your Profile:<ul><li>6-10 years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in backend engineering, platform engineering, distributed systems, or large-scale digital platforms.</li><li>Strong experience building scalable backend services, APIs, microservices, or event-driven systems in production environments.</li><li>Strong backend development skills in one or more modern programming languages such as Java, Kotlin, Go, Node.js, Python, TypeScript, or similar.</li><li>Hands-on experience with AWS and cloud-native application development.</li><li>Experience with MongoDB or other NoSQL databases.</li><li>Experience with Kafka or other messaging / event-streaming platforms.</li><li>Experience with Redis or similar caching technologies.</li><li>Experience with Elasticsearch / OpenSearch for search, indexing, or data retrieval use cases.</li><li>Strong understanding of system design, scalability, latency, reliability, fault tolerance, and performance optimisation.</li><li>Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and tracing tools such as AWS CloudWatch and OpenTelemetry.</li><li>Strong understanding of CI/CD, automated testing, version control, secure coding, and agile delivery practices.</li><li>Ability to work independently in a remote / WFH environment while collaborating effectively with distributed engineering teams.</li><li>Strong problem-solving ability, ownership mindset, attention to detail, and commitment to engineering quality.</li></ul><ul><li>Comfortable using modern AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar tools in a professional engineering workflow.</li></ul> Apply TodayPlease send your resume, in WORD format only and quote reference number Ref No DC3470977, by clicking the apply button. Please note that only short-listed candidates will be contacted. Robert Half International Pte Ltd. Co. Registration no.: 200612189E | EA Licence no.: 07C5595 | Dmitriy Chervinskyi EA Registration no.: R22108655By clicking 'apply', you give your express consent that Robert Half may use your personal information to process your job application and to contact you from time to time for future employment opportunities. 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2026-07-16T01:29:26Z