Senior Software Developer (Backend)

About iPrice Group

Think shopping. Think iPrice.

Southeast Asia is seen as the e-commerce haven, where new online stores are popping up every day. As such, shoppers are faced with more and more websites in their search for what they want and engage with retailers online. All this can get a little confusing.
With this in mind, iPrice was set up to offer shoppers the widest selection of products and brands, provided by hundreds of partners in Southeast Asia – all made available on one shopping website. No more having to search through the plethora of websites.
Going through many different websites often takes time. iPrice recognized the importance of saving time and money and has provided shoppers the benefit of comparing prices of products from its partners. Other useful information like delivery time and costs, payment options and good coupon deals are also readily available.
iPrice has in place a stringent selection process of acquiring partners in order to offer shoppers high quality and reliable partners. This is to ensure that online purchases are made in a safe environment.
With a click of a button, the avid shopper can now search for products, compare prices and save with great deals – all in one safe shopping site.

Position

• Take over full responsibility for the delivery and quality of backend development projects, handling TBs of data every day
• Collaborate closely with the data science and merchant integration teams to translate requirements, integrations and algorithms into data pipelines
• Develop, test and deploy code that is part of a product used by tens of millions of people across South East Asia every month
• Maintain a high quality standard of our data ingestion and processing pipelines, reliably handling data in many different formats and structures
• Drive to keep improving programming and design processes and techniques
• Quickly debug and analyze issues that affect the reliability and performance of our catalog update and scraping process
• Deliver incremental results live on our site on a weekly basis with the support of a cross-functional agile team

Your qualification

• A Bachelor's Degree/Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related subject
• 5-7 years of experience delivering big data solutions on tight schedules in a company known for best-in-class products
• Proven experience working in a multi-national environment with agile methodologies (SCRUM, CI/CD, TDD, LESS)
• Hands-on experience building applications using PHP7, Python 3 and libraries from the related ecosystems
• Hands-on experience in Big Data software development technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Kafka) and exposure to resource/cluster management technologies 
• Experience with Big data design, ETL (Extraction, Transformation & Load), architecting efficient software designs for Big data platform
• Deep experience with the latest NoSQL database technologies like Elastic Search and Cassandra 
• Familiar with modern architectural patterns of highly scalable systems like horizontal scaling and queueing systems
• Unmatched attention to detail when it comes to optimizing performance of backend processes and services, never satisfied with the smallest annoyances
• Expert in Amazon Web Services, container technologies (Docker) and deployment frameworks (Terraform, Ansible)
• Familiar with best practices in Development Lifecycles, Source Control tools like Git, familiarity with the Linux command line interface

What we offer

• Comprehensive healthcare including outpatient/in-patient benefits for you and your family
• Work permit / visa coverage for expatriates to work in Malaysia
• Extra perks including claimable grab rides if you’re in the office past 7 pm; stocked pantry; subsidised vending machine/ snacks and plenty of iPrice events