Backend Engineer – Distributed Systems

We're hiring: Backend Engineer – Distributed Systems (3 positions)

📍 Kuala Lumpur (on-site)

AppBay Studio is a Malaysian enterprise software firm building large-scale platforms for regional retail, financial services and enterprise clients. We're growing a dedicated engineering team for a major enterprise client in Kuala Lumpur, and we're looking for backend engineers who enjoy building systems that don't fall over.

What you'll do

• Build core business logic and distribution services using asynchronous, event-driven patterns (Kafka, RabbitMQ or similar)

• Design microservices with clean domain boundaries (DDD) and solid service-to-service communication

• Build services that are highly available, fault-tolerant and horizontally scalable

• Work in Agile squads alongside architects, frontend, data and QA engineers

What we're looking for

• 4+ years of backend engineering experience

• Strong in at least one of: Java/Kotlin, Node.js/TypeScript or Go

• Hands-on experience with message brokers and asynchronous processing in production

• Solid understanding of microservices, API design, and relational databases (PostgreSQL or similar)

• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes and a major cloud (GCP/AWS) is a plus

• Retail, loyalty, payments or high-volume transactional systems is a bonus

What you get

• Competitive monthly package

• Hybrid working – remote by default, in the office for key sessions

• Large-scale, real-world systems serving millions of users

• A small, senior team where your work is visible

Interested? Apply here or send your CV to shihao.pang@appbaystudio.com with the subject "Backend Engineer – Engine". Shortlisting starts immediately – early applications are prioritised.

Your CV will only be shared with our client with your consent.

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