Backend Engineer
- Team
- Enterprise engineering
- Location
- Kuala Lumpur
- Work arrangement
- On-site
- Type
- Full time
- Salary
- RM 4,500 to RM 6,500 a month
- Applications close
- 15 January 2027
About the role
You build and maintain the services behind client systems: the APIs the interface calls, the integrations with third parties, and the scheduled work that keeps data moving. These systems are live, so the work has real users attached.
What you will do
- Build API endpoints and background jobs against a data model you help shape.
- Integrate with third party systems and handle the cases where they fail or go quiet.
- Write the tests that make a fortnightly release boring.
- Pick up production issues on the systems your team runs.
What you will bring
- Commercial experience with a server-side language and a relational database.
- Comfort reading someone else's code before changing it.
- An eye for the failure cases, not only the happy path.
- Clear written English, since much of the work is agreeing behaviour in writing.
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.
Similar roles
Search all jobs| Senior Backend Engineer Own service architecture and data models on a live engagement, and stay with the system once it is carrying real load. | LocationKuala Lumpur, On-site | TypeFull time |
| Senior Frontend Engineer Lead the interface work on a client system and set the patterns the rest of the team builds against. | LocationKuala Lumpur, On-site | TypeFull time |
| Frontend Engineer Build the screens people use all day, against real data and real edge cases rather than a prototype. | LocationKuala Lumpur, On-site | TypeFull time |
| Full Stack Engineer Work across the stack on smaller systems, where one engineer carries a feature from schema to screen. | LocationKuala Lumpur, On-site | TypeFull time |