**Expert Back End Engineer (Marketplace Order) - Sea Labs**
Engineering and Technology - Sea Labs Indonesia, Jakarta
Experienced (Team Lead)
**About Sea Labs Indonesia**
Sea Labs is at the core of the Sea platforms development, supporting diverse business lines from e-commerce, supply chain, games, payment and finance, among many others. The strong growth and unique positioning of Sea's e-commerce business, Shopee, spurred the launch of Sea Labs Indonesia. Since its inception, the group of passionate engineers have charted the course to drive the best experience for our users in Indonesia, many of which solutions are even adapted to other markets in the region.
Sea's hyper-growing business scale has transformed most "innocent" problems into huge technical challenges, and there is no better place to experience world-class projects first-hand if you love technologies as much as we do. Together with our passionate and driven teams, you'll get to develop your skills, build on industry knowledge and collaborate with global teams in a dynamic space. Browse our Sea Labs Indonesia team openings to see how you can make an impact with us.
**About the Team**
The Marketplace Order team powers the overall product detail, shopping cart, checkout, and order process in Shopee through innovation and technology. In our pursuit to shape the way buyers and sellers connect with each other, we engineer scalable, reliable and extensible systems that evolve with the dynamic e-commerce landscape. As we scale to the next engineering frontier for the global market, we continuously solve unique challenges such as multi-market architecture design, highly sustainable systems, and core functional capabilities for the department. Our tech leaders take responsibility for products, define engineering roadmaps, and work with cross-functional teams to achieve excellence in product performance and technical sustainability.
- Lead a project team to deliver end-to-end projects across the software development life cycle
- Design and develop highly scalable, available, and maintainable backend systems across various products in the Order team, including but not limited to the shopping cart, checkout process, order management, returns and refunds, and order clearing and settlement
- Collaborate in a highly cross-functional environment with Software Engineers, Product Managers, Quality Assurance Engineers, and Operation Engineers to deliver impact.
- Guide and review technical designs and coding outputs of the team, taking responsibility for progress and quality of projects
- Optimize the process of developing, debugging, testing, releasing, documenting, monitoring and operating on the cross-stack systems in the team
- Design well layered engineering architectures to model product requirements, abstract reusable components, and decouple independent modules
- Set the technical direction of the backend architecture, plan deliverables and milestones to execute the team's engineering strategy
- Mentor and coach team members on backend software engineering principles and practices
- Cultivate technical culture and innovation, and enhance engineering quality on a cross-team level
**Job Requirements**:
- Bachelor's or a higher degree in Computer Science or related qualifications
- At least 6 years of experience designing and troubleshooting highly scalable and maintainable distributed systems
- At least 2 years of hands-on technical leadership experience, defining technical direction and leading project teams
- Hands-on proficiency in an object-oriented programming language, such as Golang, Python, Java, or C++.
- Hands-on experience in backend engineering middleware internals, such as MySQL binary logs, Kafka replication details, and Redis high availability strategies.
- Experience in refactoring systems based on complex product requirements, to improve maintainability and development efficiency