Staff/Principal Engineers (Backend)

We're partnering with a leading global e-commerce technology platform that serves customers across more than 50 countries and operates at significant scale. As the business continues to invest heavily in engineering, we're looking to hire multiple senior individual contributors across Staff and Principal Engineer levels.

These are highly influential technical roles for engineers who enjoy solving complex problems, shaping technical direction, and building systems at scale while remaining close to the code.

The Opportunity

You'll join a senior engineering organisation where ownership sits with engineers and technical excellence is highly valued. The environment is fast-paced, collaborative, and focused on delivering scalable solutions that directly impact millions of customer interactions globally.

The business has made significant investments in modern cloud-native architecture, developer productivity, and AI-assisted software development, creating an environment where engineers can focus on building rather than navigating bureaucracy.

What You'll Be Working On

Depending on your background and interests, you could be involved in areas such as:

• Large-scale distributed systems
• Commerce and transaction platforms
• Order management and fulfilment systems
• Product and catalogue platforms
• Search and recommendation services
• Pricing and promotions engines
• Platform engineering and developer tooling
• Cloud-native services running on AWS

What We're Looking For

We're interested in speaking with experienced engineers who have built and operated large-scale, mission-critical systems and who enjoy balancing hands-on development with technical leadership.

You will likely bring experience in several of the following:

• Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture
• Strong cloud-native experience, ideally within AWS environments
• Experience with technologies such as Kubernetes, ECS, Kafka, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch and modern observability tooling
• Strong software engineering fundamentals in Java, Go, Python, TypeScript or JavaScript
• A track record of influencing technical direction across teams and organisations
• A pragmatic approach to balancing scale, reliability, performance and delivery

An Important Note About The Structure Of These Roles

While these positions carry significant technical scope and organisational influence, they are not people management roles (as of now).

Successful candidates will initially join as individual contributors, with a strong emphasis on hands-on engineering, architecture, technical decision-making, mentoring and driving engineering excellence through influence rather than direct line management.

Language & Collaboration

The engineering organisation operates in a highly international environment. As many key stakeholders, technical discussions and day-to-day collaborations take place in both English and Chinese, professional proficiency in Mandarin is important to be effective in the role.

Ideal Backgrounds

We're particularly keen to engage engineers from leading technology companies, large-scale internet businesses, global e-commerce organisations, fintech platforms, cloud providers and other environments where scalability, availability and distributed systems are core challenges.

If you've built platforms serving millions of users, driven architecture for business-critical systems, or played a key role in scaling engineering organisations, we'd be delighted to have a confidential conversation.