Senior Backend Engineer - Marketplace Intelligence & Data (Shared Components)

Department Engineering and Technology

Level Experienced (Individual Contributor)

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.

Job Description

Collaborate with algorithm and backend engineers to design and build high-performance machine learning infrastructure, tooling, and frameworks.

Develop scalable solutions to drive one of the following key initiatives:

Vector Search & Indexing

Agent Workflows Orchestration

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.

In-depth understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures and algorithms, operating systems, networks, databases, etc.).

Strong, hands‑on experience with at least one of the following programming languages: Go, C++, or Java.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in designing and deploying machine learning-related backend services.

Experience in the architecture and development of large-scale distributed systems.

Experience with big data pipelines and compute frameworks (e.g., Spark, Flink, Ray).

Familiarity with LLM and agentic ecosystems (e.g., vLLM, RAG, MCP).

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