Backend Engineer (Search and recommendation team)

Job Description: We are looking for a talented and motivated Go Developer Intern to join our team for a 6-month internship. This is an exciting opportunity to gain hands-on experience in Go development and work on real-world projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the development team to design and develop Go applications.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code following best practices.
• Assist in the integration of third-party APIs and libraries.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve application issues.
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies in Go development.
• Document code and maintain technical documentation.

Requirements:

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of Go and its standard library.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Go applications to back-end services.
• Knowledge of Go concurrency patterns and best practices.
• Experience with version control systems such as Git.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

About Streamlyn

Streamlyn is a regional leader in adtech, specializing in enhancing monetization for Publishers through innovative and compelling ad products. Our ad tech engagement solutions suite empowers Publishers to elevate their business and monetize their content effectively. With a vast network of premium publisher partners across Asia, Streamlyn reaches over 100 million consumers monthly.

Job Overview

As the Tech Lead, you will play a critical role in defining the future of our advanced ad tech platform. This position requires full technical ownership of a high-impact project, where you’ll architect and implement a scalable, high-performance system while guiding a dedicated team of developers to advance our product roadmap.

In this role, you’ll balance strategic technical oversight with hands-on involvement. You will combine strategic technical leadership with hands-on involvement to oversee the platform’s scalability, reliability, and technical evolution. Success will depend on a combination of ad tech expertise, strategic vision, and strong leadership as you drive innovation and foster a high-performance engineering culture.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Independent Project Leadership: Lead a dedicated project stream within our ad tech platform, from initial architecture and design through to delivery. Take full accountability for your project’s technical vision, resource planning, and execution, ensuring it meets performance and scalability requirements.
• Strategic Technical Ownership: Define and implement a technical roadmap that aligns with Streamlyn’s goals, focusing on scalability, resilience, and innovation. Ensure project components are optimized for real-time bidding, ad serving, and data processing requirements unique to ad tech.
• Performance & Scalability: Architect a platform capable of processing billions of requests daily with minimal latency. Utilize advanced load balancing, caching, and database technologies to achieve optimal performance and reliability.
• Team Building & Mentorship: Lead a specialized team of developers, fostering an environment of technical excellence and innovation. Set high standards for code quality, maintainability, and performance while mentoring team members and encouraging growth.
• Product Innovation & Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with product, operations, and sales teams to ensure the products and platform meet high standards and unique demands. Drive the development of cutting-edge features like custom ad units and contextual targeting to keep Streamlyn competitive.
• Ad Tech Expertise: Apply a deep understanding of ad tech—DSPs, SSPs, oRTB protocols, and header bidding frameworks—to ensure seamless integration and adherence to industry best practices.
• Team and Process Development: Drive agile methodologies and efficient development processes within your team to support responsive and high-quality delivery. Implement continuous improvement practices that optimize team productivity and platform reliability.

Qualifications

• Experience: 5+ years in software development with hands-on ad tech experience, ideally in building ad servers, header bidding solutions, oRTB (Open Real-Time Bidding) integrations, and data pipelines.
• Technical Proficiency -
• Languages: Advanced knowledge in Java and Python.
• Databases: Strong experience with MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Aerospike, and familiarity with other NoSQL technologies.
• Data Pipeline: Proven experience designing and implementing data pipelines for handling large-scale ad data in real-time, including ingestion, processing, and transformation.
• Infrastructure and Cloud: Proficiency with AWS Cloud services, including EMR, EKS, and Docker Containers. Experience with Apache Spark, Kafka, and MKS.
• Ad Tech Ecosystem Knowledge: Strong understanding of the ad tech landscape, including DSPs, SSPs, header bidding, programmatic advertising, and RTB protocols.
• Architectural Expertise: Advanced skills in designing distributed, microservices-based architectures and developing APIs for high-performance, low-latency applications. Advanced knowledge in load balancing, caching, and database technologies to enhance performance and scalability.
• System Monitoring & Optimization: Hands-on experience with monitoring and optimization tools, such as Prometheus, Grafana, or similar for system reliability.
• Data Engineering: Experience with ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes, data warehousing, and building data flows for analytical and reporting purposes.
• Agile and Project Management: Experience with Agile methodologies and the ability to prioritize and manage complex projects.
• Leadership Skills: Demonstrated ability to lead a team, with experience in mentorship, team building, and technical coaching. Comfortable taking ownership and accountable for team deliverables.
• Communication: Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical issues and facilitate cross-functional team discussions.

• Architect new and optimize existing software codebases and systems used to crawl, launch, run, and monitor the Anakin family of app crawlers
• Deeply own the lifecycle of software, including rolling out to operations, managing configurations, maintaining and upgrading, and supporting end-users
• Configure and optimize the automated testing and deployment systems used to maintain over 1000+ crawlers across the company
• Analyze data and bugs that require in-depth investigations
• Interface directly with external customers including managing relationships and steering requirements

• Extremely effective, self-driven builder
• 2+ years of experience as a backend software engineer
• 2+ years of experience with Python
• 2+ years of experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, etc.
• Should have managed a team of software engineers
• Deep experience with network debugging across all OSI layers (Wireshark)
• Knowledge of networks or/and cybersecurity

• Broad understanding of the landscape of software engineering design patterns and principles
• Ability to work quickly and accurately in a highly stressful environment during removing bugs in run-time within minutes
• Excellent communicator, both written and verbal

• Must be available to work extended hours and weekends when needed to meet critical deadlines
• Must have an aversion to politics and BS. Should let his/her work speak for him/her.
• Must be comfortable with uncertainty. In almost all the cases, your job will be to figure it out.
• Must not be bounded to comfort zone. Often, you will need to challenge yourself to go above and beyond.

Responsibilities:

• Develop new and enhance existing micro-services, libraries, and features that form our B2B KYC platform.
• Create and document APIs, Queue Contracts to be consumed by other services.
• Work closely with the Product and Engineering Leads to implement features following best design principles and patterns.
• Participate in all phases of the development cycle - plan, design, implement, review, test, deploy, document, and training.
• Help junior developers with best practices like TDD etc. and make sure their code meets the standards.
• Educate them continuously to improve overall team performance and work quality.

Requirements:

• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, software design principles, algorithms & design patterns.
• Development experience (> 3 to 6 years ) - preferably on languages such as GoLang / NodeJS and scripting skills.
• Interest and ability to quickly learn and ramp-up on new languages and technologies.
• Ability to write understandable, reliable and testable code with minimum supervision.
• Distributed, Highly-available systems running at large scale.
• Distributed platforms which use Kafka, Elasticsearch, Cassandra or similar systems.
• Cloud environments (e. g., Docker, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes etc., ).
• Asynchronous programming patterns (e. g., GO Routines/Channels, NodeJS Async Programming).
• Experience in CI/CD (Continuous Integration & Delivery), AGILE work environments.
• Ability to troubleshoot and solve issues on distributed systems.

• Set up, manage, automate and deploy AI models in development and production infrastructure.
• Orchestrate life cycle management of AI Models
• Create APIs and help business customers put results of the AI models into operations
• Develop MVP ML learning models and prototype applications applying known AI models and verify the problem/solution fit
• Validate the AI Models
• Make model performant (time and space) based on the business needs
• Perform statistical analysis and fine-tuning using test results
• Train and retrain systems when necessary
• Extend existing ML libraries and frameworks
• Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis 
• Ensuring that algorithms generate accurate user recommendations/insights/outputs
• Keep abreast with the latest AI tools relevant to our business domain

• Bachelor’s or master's degree in Computer Science, Statistics or related field 
• A Master’s degree in data analytics, or similar will be advantageous.
• 3 - 5 years of relevant experience in deploying AI models to production
• Understanding of data structures, data modeling, and software architecture
• Good knowledge of math, probability, statistics, and algorithms
• Ability to write robust code in Python/ R
• Proficiency in using query languages, such as SQL
• Familiarity with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, Tensorflow and libraries such as scikit-learn
• Worked with well know machine learning models ( SVM, clustering techniques, forecasting models, Random Forest, etc.)
• Having knowledge in CI/CD for the building and hosting the solutions
• We don’t expect you to be an expert or an AI researcher, but you must be able to take existing models and best practices and adapt them to our environment.
• Adherence to compliance procedures in accordance with regulatory standards, requirements, and policies. 
• Ability to work effectively and independently in a fast-paced agile environment with tight deadlines 
• A flexible, pragmatic, and collaborative team player with an innate ability to engage with data architects, analysts, and scientists.

About theAsianparent : theAsianparent is a reproductive health-tech company that reaches out to 30 million mothers every month through our parenting website and app. Our vision is to improve the overall health of pregnant women, mothers and families in South East Asia by helping them navigate their most important moments with data-driven solutions and information in the form of content, community and physical products.

Headquartered in Singapore, theAsianparent has offices in Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong and Nigeria. Our investors include Fosun, JD.com,Vertex Ventures and others.

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We are looking for a Backend Engineers with 4+ years of experience to join our team. This is unique opportunity for a driven and insightful Engineer to join the leading growth-stage start up in the most meaningful segment of the economy(parents) in the core market of Singapore. This is a role where careers are made, if you are upto the challenge, and keen to work with world-class teams.

Work Experience : 4 years & above

About the Role :

This role is based in our India Office, reporting to the Head of Development.  

Experience: PHP Developer: 3 - 5 Years

Job Specifications:

• Required (Must Have) skills : Wordpress, Core PHP, OOPS Concept, MySQL, Github
• Desired (Good to have) skills : Linux Command, Basic HTML5 & CSS3, JS/Jquery Ajax, Third-party APIs

Requirements:

1. Must be a self-starter & be able to work with minimum supervision
2. Basic architectural understanding of modern day web applications and enjoy designing a system for speed and scale.
3. Should be able to create a website in HTML, Wordpress, WooCommerce and Laravel (Good to have)
4. Highly Proficient with PHP, MySQL, JQuery, JavaScript, MVC Architecture, OOPs & XSLT
5. Excellent knowledge of PHP frameworks and MVC design patterns
6. Experience of creating database schema
7. Experience with CI/CD tools like jenkins is a plus.
8. Experience with testing and automation frameworks.
9. Good knowledge and experience in AGILE and SCRUM methodologies.
10. Working knowledge of AWS Services, Web Services/REST API etc.
11. Understanding of SEO is plus

What can you expect :

• A fast-paced environment to learn and grow in your career with a market leader with ambitious growth plans.
• Opportunities to learn about and work in different areas of content creation and management and become a well-rounded digital media content professional.
• Dynamic and supportive work culture.
• A passionate team of people working tirelessly to help women across South East Asia and beyond.

Responsibilities Include

You will break down business opportunities and problems into software solutions. You will work closely with the CTO to help product and marketing stakeholders distill the product vision and roadmap, into a technology vision. You will be responsible for the evolution of an already bleeding-edge highly distributed systems at the back-end, and would need to work with front-end architects to come up with the best user experience for the gaming platform. You will be required to make decisions quickly, and work under strict timelines. You would lead technology strategy through analysis of market trends and product requirements. You would help set coding guidelines and help bring the most modern tools to keep engineering processes most efficient.

Requirements

• B.E/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 10+ years or more of progressive software technology experience with at least 3 years in an architectural role.
• Completely hands on with technology and architecture. Start-up experience is a huge plus.
• Ability to quickly prototype and demonstrate technology value adds and educate + drive adoption within the extended technology team
• Excellent and robust understanding of scalable product system architecture(s), platforms and core technologies
• Demonstrated problem-solving and leadership skills to pursue correct engineering process in adverse conditions. Ability to embrace and demonstrate leadership beyond ownership
• Work with engineering leadership to setup and manage processes.
• Track record of thought leadership and out of the box thinking in the technology arena.
• Ability to work efficiently in an entrepreneurial and in a start-up environment
• A Java/Spring/Akka, Javascript or Golang rockstar.
• Deep and hands on knowledge of some of these technologies - MySQL, NodeJS, message brokers such as Kafka/RabbitMQ, NoSQL datastore such as Mongo, Cassandra, Arango, distributed caches such as Redis/memcached, container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes etc.
• Great proficiency in distributed systems design, with an ability to make the right trade-offs for creating future-proof solutions.
• Building quick PoCs and full-fledged solutions with various AWS managed services would be a big plus.