Staff Engineer - Backend & Platform

About the role

AirAsia MOVE, a budget travel OTA within the Capital A Group, is looking for a hands-on Staff Engineer in Kuala Lumpur to own the technology roadmap for key OTA services. The role covers designing and running highly available, scalable systems, mentoring developers and working closely with engineering leadership.

Key responsibilities

• Review designs for services, APIs and data flows, and make trade-offs between performance, reliability and speed to market
• Define coding standards, design patterns and best practices, and mentor engineers on system design and code quality
• Build and run robust, scalable, secure backend services (Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, Go or similar)
• Ensure high availability, fault tolerance and low latency; embed observability such as OpenTelemetry
• Drive platform engineering, developer productivity tools, CI/CD pipelines and service mesh implementations
• Troubleshoot production issues, run root cause analysis and drive continuous improvement

Required profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field
• 8-14 years of backend development experience, including at least 3 years in a leadership or senior architect role
• Proven ability to mentor and grow engineering teams
• Experience in e-commerce and travel is a plus; startup experience is strongly preferred

Required skills

• Backend services with Java, Spring Boot or Node.js; full-stack experience is a plus
• Relational (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (Redis, MongoDB) databases
• Frontend ecosystems (React, React Native, Flutter) and authentication protocols (OAuth2, OIDC); Kafka, GCP PubSub
• Service mesh (Istio, Linkerd) and cloud-native API gateways
• Observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, ELK