[Corporate] Senior Backend Engineer

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KKCompany Technologies, Asia’s leading AI multimedia technology group is dedicated to creating values for customers with core businesses of multimedia technologies, digital cloud, and AI applications.

At KKCompany, we believe in “Innovation Made Simple,” and technology is the answer to the struggles faced by every industry. Since its establishment two decades ago, KKCompany has expanded its portfolio, including KKBOX, BlendVision and Going Cloud. KKBOX is the world’s first platform bringing legal music streaming service to the public. It utilizes state-of-the-art streaming technology to enable excellent user experience. Our flagship brands and a base of international clients enable us to accumulate extensive data and advance analytical capabilities. The strengths along with our abundant experience in brand management help businesses achieve digital transformation successfully. We serve over tens of millions of consumers and enterprise clients in Asia cross a broad spectrum of industries such as telecommunication, multimedia, online education, fitness, smart retail and more.

KKCompany now has over 500 employees across offices in Tokyo, Singapore, Taipei, Kaohsiung, and Hong Kong.

Intro

In this role, you will be joining the internal development team as a backend developer. We deliver universal services primarily used with employees' daily workloads. Our ambition is to continuously improve the employee experience of corporate procedures by complexity reduction, and customized development to overcome pain points in corporate.

Responsibilities:

• Designing, developing, and maintaining internal backend services and infrastructure.
• Troubleshooting and resolving backend issues in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Deploying and operating the services on cloud platforms.

Requirements:

• Minimum 4 years of experience in backend development.
• Availability to develop with Python, and have hands-on experience with Python web framework, such as FastAPI, Flask and Django.
• Experience with backend technologies, including databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL), caching (Redis, Memcached), message queues (SQS, SNS), and RESTful APIs.
• Familiarity with Trunk-Based Development.
• Familiarity with software testing techniques, such as Unit Testing, Integrated Testing.
• Experience with container technology, such as building images with Docker or Kaniko, andfamiliarity with container development and deployment.
• Experience with AWS (VPC, EC2, S3, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, ECS Fagate, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with Release Management techniques, such as Semantic Versioning and Conventional Commit.
• Hands-on experience with building CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions).

Preferred:

• Experience with Agile software development, such as Scrum and Kanban.
• Experience with IaC, such as AWS CDK, CloudFormation and Terraform.
• Hands-on experience with Software Architecture design, such as Hexagonal Architecture and Clean Architecture.
• Hands-on experience with API First development.
• Experience with Issue Tracking Systems, such as Jira, Trac and Redmine.
• Keep up-to-date with the latest trends and best practices in backend engineering and commit to continuous personal and team growth.