Senior Expert Backend Engineer Lead - Recommendation
Philippines
Permanent
Full-time
6 days ago
Job Description: Lead the design and engineering implementation of Shopee's core recommendation system architecture, driving strategic evolution of recommendation capabilities to support a wide range of business scenarios and enhance both user engagement and business outcomes. Continuously improve system performance across throughput, latency, stability, and data timeliness, with the goal of achieving best-in-class benchmarks within the industry. Identify and abstract common patterns across business lines to drive modularization and standardization of system components, improving code reuse, platform consistency, and long-term maintainability. Establish and optimize resource utilization frameworks to enable measurable evaluation of system capacity and computational efficiency, aligning with cost optimization and service scalability goals. Collaborate closely with platform, data engineering, and algorithm teams to address upstream and downstream integration challenges, including data pipelines, interface contracts, and monitoring instrumentation, ensuring stable and reliable end-to-end delivery. Requirements: Minimum 7 years of backend development experience in large-scale personalized recommendation, search ranking, or advertising systems, with demonstrated expertise in system architecture and high-concurrency service reliability. Proficient in Linux-based development environments expert in at least one mainstream backend language such as C++ or Golang, with strong system-level engineering and design skills. Experience in building or evolving large-scale service platforms, with strong abstraction and platform-oriented thinking. Clear and logical thinking, with excellent problem-solving and analytical skills capable of independently owning critical system modules. Strong communication and collaboration skills able to coordinate effectively with algorithm, product, and platform teams to drive projects forward. Proven experience in managing teams for mid- to large-scale projects or critical system components, with the ability to lead technical planning, execution, and quality assurance.