Principal Backend Software Engineer

Delivery Hero
Singapore
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 10+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Leadership","Mentorship","Collaboration","Innovation","Problem-solving"]

Lead the design and development of scalable, reliable backend systems for the Transaction Tribe, driving improvements that help grow customer acquisition and engagement. Build reusable services, APIs, and shared modules used across multiple products. Optimize performance and reliability across databases, caching, message queues, and event-driven components, while embedding security and compliance best practices. Collaborate with product, UX, and frontend teams and provide technical leadership and mentorship.

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Delivery Hero
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Principal Backend Software Engineer

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Job Summary

Lead the design and development of scalable, reliable backend systems for the Transaction Tribe, driving improvements that help grow customer acquisition and engagement. Build reusable services, APIs, and shared modules used across multiple products. Optimize performance and reliability across databases, caching, message queues, and event-driven components, while embedding security and compliance best practices. Collaborate with product, UX, and frontend teams and provide technical leadership and mentorship.
Location: Singapore
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead the architecture, development, and implementation of backend systems for the Transaction Tribe.
  • •Design and implement reusable services, APIs, and shared modules aligned with best practices for maintainability.
  • •Partner with product, UX, and frontend teams to ensure backend capabilities support current and future needs.
  • •Own performance monitoring, tuning, and optimization to achieve high availability and low latency across backend components.
  • •Provide technical leadership and mentorship to backend engineers while advancing security, compliance, and innovation.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceDentalLearning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent education or practical experience.
  • •10+ years of backend engineering experience with scalable distributed systems and service-oriented design.
  • •Strong expertise in backend programming languages and frameworks (preferably Go), with deep system design and API knowledge.
  • •Extensive experience building and operating high-performance, highly available backend systems, including databases, caching, message queues, and event-driven architectures.
  • •Proficiency designing modular, reusable, maintainable backend components and leading CI/CD, testing, and deployment workflows.
Experience:10+ years
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science
Skills:LeadershipMentorshipCollaborationInnovationProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GoAPIsMicroservicesService-oriented architecturesDistributed architectureCI/CDAutomated testingDeploymentObservabilityDatabasesCachingMessage queuesEvent-driven architecturesConcurrencySystem design patterns

Company Brief

Delivery Hero
Global online food-ordering and local delivery platform operating multiple regional brands (e.g., Foodpanda, Glovo, Talabat) across 50–70+ countries, supplying food and quick-commerce deliveries via marketplace and logistics services.
Industry: Online Marketplaces
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Berlin, Germany
Founded: 2011
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