Backend Software Engineer

Established in 1987 and headquartered in Taiwan, TSMC pioneered the pure-play foundry business model with an exclusive focus on manufacturing its customers’ products. As of 2024, TSMC serves more than 500 customers and manufactures over 11,000 products for high-performance computing, smartphones, the Internet of Things (IoT), automotive, and digital consumer electronics. It is the world’s largest provider of logic ICs, with an annual capacity of 16 million 12-inch equivalent wafers. TSMC operates fabs in Taiwan as well as manufacturing subsidiaries in Washington State, Japan and China, and the Company began construction on a specialty technology fab in Dresden, Germany, in 2024. In Arizona, TSMC is building three fabs, with the first starting 4nm production in 2025, the second by 2028, and the third by the end of the decade.

The Role:

Software Engineer, Backend Development at TSMC IT focus on designing the most flexible, scalable backend architecture with optimized performance to support TSMC world-class manufacture, engineering and business systems. The ideal candidate has a highly technical multi-discipline engineering skillset that can push the limits of complex system design at large scale.

Responsibilities:

1. Implement the features and services of backend for TSMC software products

2. Develop state-of-the-art code

3. Continue to refactor existing applications

4. Contribute to write tests to ensure software quality

5. Apply software design principles to ensure software quality

6. Ensure sustainability and performance of software applications

7. Willing to learn new IT technologies

1. Bachelor's/Master's degree or above and major in Computer Science, Information engineering, Industry Engineering, Statistics or Mathematic related fields, similar technical fields of study or equivalent practical experience.

2. Strong technical skills in one or more of the following fields: C++,C#, JAVA, Python, Database or System infrastructure architect.

3. Have solid foundation of either one of backend framework: Spring/Spring Boot, .NET Core/ASP.NET Core, Django/Flask.

4. Familiar with software engineering practices: CI, CD, DDD or TDD.

5. Experience managing container-based workloads, using Kubernetes or other orchestration software.

6. Familiarity with developing APIs with the care they deserve (e.g. gRPC/REST with OpenAPI/Swagger , GraphQL)

7. With experience with scrum or devops practice is a plus.

8. With AI domain experience is a plus.

9. Familiar with source code version control tools : Git

Fostering a global inclusive workplace reflects TSMC’s core values and business philosophy and is essential for our future success. Our commitment to global inclusive workplace allows us to create an environment where every employee, regardless of gender, age, disability, religion, race, ethnicity, nationality, political affiliation, or sexual orientation, can bring their unique perspective and experiences to work, enabling us to drive profitability, increase productivity, and unleash innovation. We strive to create a workplace that is equitable and accessible to all employees. We are committed to fostering an inclusive culture where every employee feels valued and empowered to contribute to our mission and provide excellent service to our global customers.