Kerja Sepenuh Masa, Lead Software Engineer di RinggitPlus WP Kuala Lumpur - Maukerja

We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to own our backend services and WhatsApp chatbot, with a clear trajectory to step into a Technical Lead role within 12 to 18 months.

Working directly alongside the Engineering Manager, you will spend most of your time building backend services, APIs, and chatbot integrations while taking ownership of architecture decisions, design reviews, and engineering standards.

Prior formal leadership experience is not required, provided you have a strong desire to step up, mentor peers, and follow a defined progression path. Since our platform processes financial product comparisons under strict guidelines from banks, insurers, regulators, and Meta, success in this role requires an engineer who thrives when solving complex logic within heavily regulated environments.

Back-end and chatbot (your main focus)

Build and maintain our services and APIs, including the gateway for WhatsApp for Business and the chatbot

Own integrations with vendors such as Meta Cloud API, including versioning and contract discipline

Own monitoring, alerting, on-call and postmortems for what you run

Make and document architecture decisions for these streams

Front-end

Contribute to our user-facing web applications

Review front-end designs alongside the developers who own that stream

Agree API contracts with the front-end developers

AI-assisted development

Work in agentic workflows day to day, and keep the repository rules and context files that make them reliable

Review AI-generated code to a standard you can explain

Help us work out what the rest of the team should adopt, and what it should not

Security

Apply SSDLC practices: input validation, secure authentication, error handling, dependency management

Review both AI-generated and human-written code for security problems

Meet our security standards and those of our partners and regulators

Working with the team

Raise the level of the engineers around you through code review and design review

Work with PMs, QAs, designers and DevOps to ship features end to end

Spot problems in performance, scalability, UX or security before they surface

5+ years of software engineering experience focused heavily on backend systems (we prioritize the complexity and scope of what you have delivered over total years).

1–2 years as the primary owner of a live production service, including hands-on experience with on-call rotation, incident management, alerting, and postmortems (a formal lead title is not required).

Strong proficiency in Golang and JavaScript/TypeScript, alongside hands-on experience with relational or NoSQL databases (MySQL, MongoDB), caching layers (Redis), and cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP).

Ability to architect scalable systems, articulate and defend technical decisions, and flexibly adapt your approach when presented with stronger ideas.

Practical application of Secure Software Development Life Cycle (SSDLC), automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, and agile delivery principles.

Practical experience using AI tools to boost daily engineering productivity, with a clear understanding of their strengths and limitations.

Strong written and spoken English with high attention to detail.

Experience mentoring developers, leading initiatives without a formal title, or establishing engineering practices that your team adopted

Hands-on experience shipping live AI features—including prompt engineering, retrieval (RAG), evaluations, hallucination control, latency, and cost optimization.

Track record of introducing AI tools or workflows to a team and measuring their impact on productivity.

Direct experience with the Meta Cloud API (WhatsApp Business) or similar conversational messaging platforms.

Strong commitment to Test-Driven Development (TDD), shift-left testing, and automated security testing practices.

Familiarity with SEO/GEO practices (structured data, semantic markup, sitemaps) or frameworks like MarkoJS and WordPress.

Opportunity to shape the future of AI-assisted software development.

Collaborative team culture with strong engineering mentorship.

Competitive compensation and growth opportunities.

Exposure to cutting-edge AI development practices and tools.

Ready for the challenge?

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