Mid-Level Back-End Developer

About the job

(This job is for candidates in Somalia who are ready to relocate to Malaysia, with relocation help provided)

Job location: Cyberjaya, Malaysia

You’ll be part of our Back-end team, where we’re the team responsible for designing, developing, testing, and debugging the company's server-side apps and databases. In collaboration with the QA team, we investigate and resolve technical issues. We empower the Front-end team by providing the components and features that they need. We aspire to delight our customers with a flawless digital experience.

As a Back-end Developer at Deriv, you’ll create high-performance software that will be the core of our trading services. Your clean code contributes to better integration and leads to engaging products. You will improve the scalability of our suite of tools, from APIs to web and mobile apps to plugins, helping us to meet the needs of our rapidly growing customer base.

Your Challenges

Build and test scalable, low-latency applications, APIs, and plugins for our customers, internal teams, and third-party developers.
Troubleshoot applications during development and deployment.
Build automated unit and integration tests and perform code reviews to improve the code quality.
Participate in the deployment of new products and features by collaborating with other teams.
Make codebases consistent and maintainable.

Requirements

Expertise in programming languages, preferably Perl, Python, PHP, C/C++, Go, or Ruby
Ability to produce high-quality, self-documenting code by using test-driven development (TDD) techniques
Knowledge of information security and data protection
Familiarity with Docker, Redis, and Git
Excellent spoken and written English communication skills

What's good to have

Experience with asynchronous programming and scalable systems
Experience with relational database design and/or open-source RDBMS systems such as MySQL and PostgreSQL
Background in Linux and other open-source platforms