- Singapore
Shopee Hiring! Full Time Software Engineering Lead - Marketplace in - Ricebowl
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Job Description
Responsibilities
Department Engineering and Technology
LevelExperienced (Team Lead)
LocationSingapore
The Engineering and Technology team is at the core of the Shopee platform development. The team is made up of a group of passionate engineers from all over the world, striving to build the best systems with the most suitable technologies. Our engineers do not merely solve problems at hand; We build foundations for a long-lasting future. We don't limit ourselves on what we can or can't do; we take matters into our own hands even if it means drilling down to the bottom layer of the computing platform. Shopee's hyper-growing business scale has transformed most "innocent" problems into huge technical challenges, and there is no better place to experience it first-hand if you love technologies as much as we do.
Job Description:
- Drive the adoption of AI across day-to-day engineering workflows and e-commerce operations by identifying high-impact opportunities and leading the design, integration, and scaling of AI-enabled solutions that solve business problems, improve productivity and service outcomes, and advance the company’s transition toward an AI-native organization, while ensuring reliability, security, and measurable value.
- Drive platform-level modularization and codebase unification, abstracting common modules such as scheduling frameworks, notification services, rule engines, and database access layers to improve delivery speed and maintainability across business lines.
- Own strategic technical roadmaps, aligning architecture decisions with business goals, and guide the team through large-scale projects from inception to delivery.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Operations, SRE, and Data teams to deliver reliable, high-availability services in multi-region deployments.
- Champion performance optimization through large-scale concurrency handling, caching strategies, async processing, and database performance tuning.
- Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies to enhance development efficiency, system resilience, and cost-effectiveness.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
- At least 7 years of backend development experience in large-scale, business-critical systems; at least 3 years in architecture leadership roles.
- Strong hands-on expertise in Golang, Java, C++, with solid knowledge of distributed systems, microservice orchestration, and event-driven architecture.
- Proven track record of building complex systems from 0 to 1, including seller platforms, campaign management systems, rule-based recommendation logic, and governance tools.
- Familiar with MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes, gRPC, Protocol Buffers and performance tuning in high-concurrency environments.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills; able to independently own critical modules and drive cross-team architectural initiatives.
- Excellent communication and leadership abilities; capable of guiding diverse teams and managing cross-regional, cross-product-line projects.
- Experience in e-commerce, ads platforms, or high-throughput transaction systems is a strong plus.
Preferred Qualifications
- Background in performance-critical, high-availability systems with multi-market deployments
- Deep expertise in Domain-Driven Design and applying it to complex business logic and microservice boundaries.
- Experience integrating AI or large language models to automate integration workflows or improve developer tooling.
- Contributions to engineering process improvements, including CI/CD pipeline optimization, developer tooling, and operational monitoring frameworks.
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