Senior Backend Engineer
- Team
- Enterprise engineering
- Location
- Kuala Lumpur
- Work arrangement
- On-site
- Type
- Full time
- Salary
- RM 6,000 to RM 7,500 a month
- Applications close
- 8 January 2027
About the role
You own the service architecture on a client engagement: the data model, the boundaries between services, and the decisions that are hard to reverse later. Once it is live you are still the one holding it, which tends to change how you design.
What you will do
- Design service boundaries and data models for a system that has to run for years rather than demo well.
- Write and review the code your team ships every two to four weeks.
- Take integrations to the point where they hold against a third party's real behaviour, not their documentation.
- Stay attached after go-live and fix the causes of what goes wrong.
What you will bring
- Several years building backend services other people depend on daily.
- Depth in at least one server-side language and a relational database.
- Experience owning a data model through schema changes, not only consuming one.
- Judgement about when to keep something simple and when the complexity is genuinely needed.
What we offer
Own real systems
From the first architecture session through to live operation, rather than a slice of someone else's design.
Work with the people you build for
Direct contact with the people using what you build, with no account layer in between.
Ship in increments
Work delivered in two to four week increments, demonstrated and accepted before the next one starts.
Grow on a real budget
An RM 1,000 yearly learning allowance, conference time counted as work, and group insurance cover from your first day.
Who we are
idataraya is a Malaysian software company. We design, build and then operate the systems our clients run their organisations on, for businesses and public institutions across Malaysia.
The engineers who design and build a system are the ones who keep it running afterwards. That is the shape of the whole company, and it is why the roles here look the way they do.
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