Software Engineer - Backend

Our Journey
ShopBack began in 2014 as a late-night spark of inspiration between Henry and Joel — not just to build a Cashback platform, but to reimagine how brands and consumers connect. As former advertisers, they understood the limitations of traditional marketing, and saw an opportunity to deliver more value on both sides. That idea quickly turned into action, and the first prototype was built over a weekend with the other co-founders. Today, ShopBack serves over 50 million users across 13 markets, partners with 20,000+ merchants, and powers over half a million transactions daily. We're building The World’s Most Rewarding Way to Shop — and looking for bold, driven individuals to join us.

About the role:
At ShopBack, our engineering teams build scalable and operable platforms serving eCommerce traffic around the world and deliver world-class product experience. You will join a diverse and talented team of engineers from many different countries with great ambitions to impact the eCommerce landscape. We are seeking team members who strive to solve the hard problems, take pride in delivering world-class products, and are strong team players.

You are someone who is resilient, self driven and highly motivated. You want to see the impact of your work making a difference every day. You find passion in the craft and are constantly seeking improvement and better ways to solve tough problems.

Your Adventure Ahead:
• You have consistently led and delivered large scale projects.
• Contribute to the ideation, technical design, implementation, and testing of product features
• Produce high quality software following good architecture and design principles that are scalable
• Design & deliver thoughtfully crafted clean APIs to drive the interactions between our client applications and backend services
• Collaborate with product, data and design to define the future of the ShopBack experience
• Comfortably lead and mentor other software engineers.
• Encourages others to follow engineering best practices.
• Analyze requirements well, come up with solutions, and explain trade-offs.

Essentials to Succeed:
• 3 to 5 years of experience developing consumer facing web applications
• Proven experience designing complex distributed systems, management products or business applications
• Hands-on experience working with NodeJS (Preferred)
• Experience building and deploying applications and services into cloud environments (AWS highly desired)
• Strong experience leading design and implementation of robust and highly scalable web services
• Demonstrated use of Generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude) to develop new or improve workflows, enhance productivity, and drive efficiency at scale
• Ability to work effectively in a fast paced, complex technical environment with high adaptability and flexibility

Technologies We Use & Love:
• Cloud: AWS
• Infra: Kubernetes
• Programming languages: NodeJS / Typescript, Java, Kotlin, Python
• Relational database: Postgres
• Message queue: Kafka, SQS
• Continuous Integration: Gitlab / Jenkins
• Monitoring: Prometheus / DataDog
• Big Data: Redshift, Spark, S3, etc.
• Communication: Slack
• Project Management: JIRA / Confluence
• Other technologies:
• Knative Eventing / Serving
• Debezium + Kafka Connect

ShopBackers' DNA
Grit - We tackle all challenges head-on, working together to solve problems and achieve success.
Hunger - We value hard work, and having relentless drive.
Speed - We move fast and have a bias for action, all to deliver maximum impact.
Impact - We focus on results, always aiming for the best possible outcomes and timelines.
Growth - We embrace a growth mindset, constantly striving to learn, improve, and excel in our roles.

Exclusively for ShopBackers
Career progression paths and opportunities to take on greater challenges that help you realise your ambitions.
Be part of a winning team on a journey to global scale.
Competitive compensation based on your performance.
Candid, open, and collaborative culture where feedback is valued, for everyone to grow and improve every day.
Work-From-Anywhere benefit to enable you to thrive personally and professionally.

ShopBack is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable laws. Join our team and help us make a difference!

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