Senior/Principal Backend Engineer

1 week ago

Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam GEEK Up Full time $40,000 - $80,000 per year

ABOUT THE ROLE:

We are seeking a
Senior/Principal Backend Engineer to lead backend architectural design and technical discovery for complex, multi-service digital products
.

This role is for an engineer with strong expertise in distributed systems, API design, infrastructure awareness, and data-intensive applications.

You will assess business and product challenges through system performance, reliability, security, traffic behavior, and integration flows to define high-impact technical initiatives and strategic backend solutions.

Why Join Us?

  • Chance to take lead the solutions architecture design for products with real impact and high complexity.
  • Directly influence product strategy by working closely with Business Owners & decision-making stakeholders.
  • Opportunity to build-up your team capacity shape the discipline from the inside.
  • Clear development path toward the Management/Leadership roles.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

As a core member of Backend Development team, you will 
coordinate with cross-function teams in end-to-end of product development
 including planning, implementation, deployment and operations.

  • Understand business logic & product requirements 
    (including both functional and non-functional)
  • Architect product and core infrastructure
     with long term 
    reliability, scalability, and security in mind
  • Propose technical solutions to the problem
    , including but not limited to 
    database design, flow diagram, sequence diagram
  • Build high performance, well-structured backend services
    , ensuring high-quality maintainable & testable code
  • Continuously 
    cross-check and review code within the team
    , ensuring that the final output is up to quality standard
  • Learn new technologies, languages, and techniques so that you are able to adapt to the requirements of the project
  • Engage in continuously deploying and scaling back-end services in both Cloud & On-premise Infrastructure
    as well as performance analysis, tuning and optimization
  • Propose solutions and fixing problems encountered during development and operations

REQUIREMENTS:

Must Have:

  • Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Software Development or any related fields.
  • 6+ years of hands-on experience in Backend Development
    , with strong proficiency in 
    at least one core programming language
     (e.g., Java, Golang, TypeScript...).
  • Experienced in design backend architecture and system flows
     with an eye on scalability, security, and long-term reliability.
  • Confidently propose and visualize technical approaches based on blur requirements,
    include but not limited to database schema, flow diagrams, sequence diagrams,…
  • Write
     
    clean, maintainable, testable code
     with high performance in mind.
  • Show real curiosity for how data flows through systems, and how to model it well.
  • Experienced in set up backend services on both Cloud and On-premise infrastructure
  • Familiar with CI/CD pipelines,
    service scaling, performance analysis, monitoring tools
    (
    Docker, Prometheus, Grafana,...)
    and optimization.
  • Be open to learning and adopting new technologies as needed.

Nice to Have:

  • Experience working in consulting or agencies environments.
  • Familiarity with
    enterprise platforms or regulatory-heavy systems.
  • Growth mindset with ambition to develop into a servant leadership role.

INTERVIEW PROCESS:

  • CV Screening & Application Form
  • HR Interview (Online)
  • Expertise &
    Behavioral
    Interview (F2F peer interview)
  • Offer Negotiation

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