Backend Engineer, ShopeePay (Campus Recruitment 2026)

The Engineering and Technology team is at the core of the Shopee platform development. The team is made up of a group of passionate engineers from all over the world, striving to build the best systems with the most suitable technologies. Our engineers do not merely solve problems at hand; We build foundations for a long-lasting future. We don't limit ourselves on what we can or can't do; we take matters into our own hands even if it means drilling down to the bottom layer of the computing platform. Shopee's hyper-growing business scale has transformed most "innocent" problems into huge technical challenges, and there is no better place to experience it first-hand if you love technologies as much as we do.

About the Team:

Shopee will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require Shopee sponsorship of a visa.

Kindly note that you can only be considered in one recruitment process at a time within Sea Group and will be considered for jobs in the order that you have applied.
 

ShopeePay, a subsidiary of Sea Group, is a mature payment platform built on the basis of real name and credit and around the value of individuals and merchants. It not only provides the most popular and stable payment method for Shopee's e-commerce platform, but have also cooperated with several financial institutions to provide stable and secure payment services for tens of millions of merchants and serve hundreds of millions of C-end users.

Job Description:

• Develop security, high reliability and complex transaction systems for financial business; handle concurrent processing scenarios with smooth user experience.


• Defining flexible and adaptable system function modules and deployment schemes for different business scenarios, physical environments and regulatory requirements in multiple regions in Southeast Asia.


• Monitor the results and quality of the different software solutions and projects implemented in the organization.


• Oversee the development of Proof-of-Concept/ solutions and provide technical expertise on the development of software and platform features, ensuring that appropriate security and risk factors are considered.


• Be guided in the project, tackling the technical difficulties of the project, and ensuring the delivery time and quality.

Requirements:

• Bachelor degree or above of Computer Science or Information Technology or related field;


• Candidates must be able to commence full-time employment from January 2026 / May 2026 / June 2026


• Proficiency in at least one of Golang/Python/C++/Java; proficient in common data structures, algorithms and multi-threading technology;


• Familiar with MySQL/Oracle and other database and common performance optimization methods, familiar with middleware components such as Redis, HBase, Kafka;


• Familiar with distributed architecture; familiar with microservice frameworks such as K8S; familiar with network protocols such as TCP/HTTPS; familiar with data exchange formats such as XML/JSON/ProtoBuf;


• Able and willing to learn quickly and with excellent communication skills and  is adapted to team collaboration.

Good To Have

• Intern experience in financial system development is preferred, or intern experience in high-concurrency system development