2,735 Backend Engineering jobs in Singapore

We are seeking an accomplished Backend Software Engineer to spearhead the development of our Java-based applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain high-quality, scalable software solutions
• Contribute to all phases of the software development lifecycle
• Develop testable, efficient, and well-documented code
• Test and debug new applications and updates
• Maintain up-to-date technical documentation
• Participate in code review

You will also perform L3 support, including software development and maintenance, by implementing enhancements and defect fixes.

Requirements:

• Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• At least 5 years of experience as a Java Software Engineer or similar role
• Proficiency in Java EE application development and Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
• Familiarity with popular Java frameworks like JSF and Spring MVC
• Knowledge of standard or enterprise skills such as:
• Enterprise Java Bean (EJB)
• J2EE framework
• XML, Xquery, XSL
• Linux/Unix Windows Platform and Solaris
• Oracle database SQL and JDBC
• Java XML Parsing, Coding
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Perl and Python
• I Text for RTF Generation
• Java-based Web services
• Java Servlet Technology

A Singapore-based provider of self-service and digital payment solutions, operating a nationwide network of mobile applications, and online platforms. The company enables individuals and businesses to complete a wide range of transactions.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, or similar platforms.
• Support application teams with troubleshooting, automation, and performance improvements.
• Implement CI/CD and infrastructure automation in collaboration with DevOps teams.
• Ensure system and database availability, disaster recovery, and security compliance.
• Perform database tuning, migration, capacity planning, and replication.
• Develop automation scripts, maintain documentation, and monitor system health.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science or related field with 2+ years in database administration.
• Strong knowledge of containers, orchestration tools, and scripting (Bash/Python).
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Skilled in MySQL and PostgreSQL with expertise in tuning, recovery, and replication.

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EA License No: 91C2918

Personnel Registration Number: R

We are looking for a Database Engineer to handle the comprehensive design, analysis, creation, manipulation, and organisation of database systems.

Responsibilities:

• Assist in database design and implementation based on business requirements.
• Develop and maintain database schemas, tables, views, and stored procedures.
• Perform database tuning and optimisation to ensure optimal performance.
• Implement data security measures and access controls.
• Troubleshoot database issues and provide timely resolution.
• Collaborate with development teams to integrate database functionality into applications.
• Conduct regular backups and ensure data integrity and availability.
• Stay updated with emerging database technologies and best practices.
• Assist in the documentation of database processes and procedures.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or equivalent
• Minimum 1 year of experience as a Database Administrator, Analyst, Engineer or in a similar position
• Hands-on expertise in database optimisation, performance tuning, and data recovery
• Proficient in Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, or PostgreSQL
• Familiar with database architecture, data modelling, and security
• Experience in High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions
• Planning skills, including sizing databases for storage needs
• Relevant certifications are mandatory

• Responsible for end-to-end lifecycle management of Oracle Databases (12c/19c) on Linux, including installation, configuration, evaluation, administration, monitoring, and operational support.
• Provide technical solutions for database-related issues while proactively monitoring and optimizing performance to ensure high availability and system reliability.
• Manage and support Oracle database environments with a focus on data management, high availability (Oracle RAC and Data Guard), performance tuning, backup and recovery, and patching/upgrades.
• Execute change and release management in compliance with organizational policies, and perform in-depth root cause analysis to troubleshoot and resolve database issues.
• Oversee comprehensive database tuning across configuration, memory, SQL, and storage layers, while administering and maintaining Microsoft SQL Server environments (2016 and above).
• Support audits with accurate documentation, participate in disaster recovery exercises, respond to incidents and service requests promptly, and ensure documentation aligns with company standards.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Information Technology or a related field from a recognized university.
• Over 8 years of hands-on experience in Oracle database patching and advanced administration of standalone and RAC environments, with proven expertise in Oracle RAC and Grid Infrastructure components such as Clusterware, ASM, and Disk Group management.
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server high availability solutions, including Always On Availability Groups and Windows Clustering.
• Strong background in database migration and upgrade projects across various platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and enforce database security policies, along with the creation and maintenance of related procedural documentation.
• Willingness and flexibility to support critical operations outside regular business hours, including evenings and weekends, as required by banking operations.

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We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

GMP Technologies (S) Pte Ltd | EA Licence: 11C3793 | Tang Lee Ling | Registration No: R

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Overview
As Singapore’s longest established bank, we have been dedicated to enabling individuals and businesses to achieve their aspirations since 1932. By taking the time to truly understand people, we provide support, services, solutions, and career paths that meet their individual needs and desires. Today, we’re on a journey of transformation—leveraging technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organisation. Our bold ambition is to be Asia’s leading financial services partner for a sustainable future. We invite you to build the bank of the future, innovate the way we deliver financial services, work in friendly, supportive teams, and build lasting value in your community. Take your learning as far as you can, or simply enjoy a vibrant, future-ready career. Your Opportunity Starts Here.
Responsibilities
Manage databases by administering, installing, configuring, upgrading, and patching.
Monitor and optimize database performance, utilizing advanced skills in database tool usage including capacity planning with a detailed analysis and recommendation.
Perform database backup and complex recovery.
Perform strong troubleshooting, diagnosing and recovery from complex database issues.
Provide strong technical assistance and advice to application teams.
Coordinate with internal IT and escalate to vendors for timely response/recovery.
Automate routine tasks using scripts and open-source tools.
Gather requirements, design business and technical aspects, develop, test, implement, and write queries, stored procedures, and automation scripts for various database technologies.
Design and implement cloud-based database solutions on AWS and Azure, ensuring best practices for security, scalability, and performance.
Utilize AWS RDS, Aurora, and Azure SQL Database for managing relational databases, ensuring high availability and disaster recovery configurations.
Monitor cloud database performance using tools like AWS CloudWatch and Azure Monitor and optimize resource allocation based on usage patterns.
Implement and manage geo-redundant database architectures in cloud environments, ensuring data integrity and availability across multiple regions.
Qualifications
Minimum requirement of 10+ years of experience in database administration, encompassing installation, configuration, backup/recovery, patching, database tuning, and support for application design and development.
Proficiency in physical database modelling, information engineering, multi-tier design and development, and open systems.
Demonstrated knowledge and experience in database high availability and disaster recovery techniques and concepts.
Experience in performance analysis (IO, CPU, etc.) and optimization (indexes, partitions, schema redesign, etc.).
Familiarity with geo-redundant database architectures (Always-On, Active/Active, Master/Master, etc.) will be considered advantageous.
Relevant experience with Oracle, SQL Server, EDB Postgres, MongoDB.
Experience with cloud-native database services, including familiarity with serverless database options and microservices architectures.
Knowledge of cloud security best practices for databases, including encryption, access control, and compliance considerations.
Strong interpersonal, analytical, and problem-solving skills, and the ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
What We Offer
Competitive base salary. A suite of holistic, flexible benefits to suit every lifestyle. Community initiatives. Industry-leading learning and professional development opportunities. Your wellbeing, growth and aspirations are every bit as cared for as the needs of our customers.
Job Details
Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
Employment type: Full-time
Job function: Information Technology
Industries: Banking
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Backend Engineer, Engineering Infra - AZPE (Campus Recruitment 2026)
role at
Shopee
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Backend Engineer, Engineering Infra - AZPE (Campus Recruitment 2026)
role at
Shopee
About The Team
Shopee will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require Shopee sponsorship of a visa. Kindly note that you can only be considered in one recruitment process at a time within Sea Group and will be considered for jobs in the order that you have applied. 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 dont limit ourselves on what we can or cant 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
Design and develop Shopee Infrastructure Platforms to serve millions of users across the world, ensuring thousands of production systems run smoothly and reliably in our platforms, no matter big campaigns or normal days.
Evolve Shopee infrastructures and empower businesses via Cloud Native technology stacks and Machine Learning technologies.
Work closely with Site Reliability Engineers, Machine Reliability Engineers and other engineers to continuously improve the development, delivery efficiency and quality of applications via Shopee Infrastructure Platforms.
Keep improving the Shopee Infrastructure Platforms' availability, stability, and security via systematic ways, such as TDD, Chaos Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Disaster Resilience, etc.
Requirements
Passionate about coding and programming, innovation, and solving challenging problems.
In-depth understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures and algorithms, operating systems, networks, databases, software architecture, etc).
Strong and hands-on experience with at least one of the programming languages: Go, Python, C++, Java.
Strong logical thinking ability.
Skills Below Are Optional But Preferable
Relevant internship experiences in the industry.
Contributed to open-source projects.
Experience with LLM and AIOps.
Experience in Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Practice and Optimization.
Published papers at conferences like ASPLOS, OSDI, SOSP, EuroSys, and etc.
Seniority level
Entry level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Information Technology
Industries
Software Development, Internet Marketplace Platforms, and Technology, Information and Internet
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Job Description
Are you looking to apply your skills contributing to a next generation of Database cloud services? Are you calm and collected when others panic under pressure? Do you get a thrill from solving really tough problems? Do you light up in conversations about uptime, horizontal scalability, performance, security, and DevOps?

The Autonomous Database Team is responsible for building the cloud service framework powering various Oracle Autonomous Database cloud services, including Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW) and Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP). The framework automates deployment, scaling and management of databases in the cloud. It is built on top of Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Layer. The autonomous database cloud service framework features APIs to handle all lifecycle management operations of databases. It also performs operations autonomously based on internal and external events. The team has the unique opportunity to make significant contributions to the full stack of Oracle technology, from database kernel to cloud service platform and to customer-facing portals.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for defining and deploying autonomous database services with deep focus on architecture, production operations, capacity planning, performance management, deployment, and release engineering. You will work with multiple cross-functional teams helping deliver new and outstanding experiences to our stakeholders while ensuring reliability and performance. We are a dynamic and enthusiastic team with great emphasis on go-getters and proactive individuals. Overview from with links to other collateral:

Responsibilities
In this role, you will need to:

• Take ownership of the implementation and production operations of core system platform solutions.
• React to production deficiencies by implementing automation, self-healing, and real-time monitoring.
• Contribute to the development of platform services, including architecture, provisioning, configuration, deployment, and support.
• Partner with the distributed team in prototyping new database platform services.
• Stay informed about cloud infrastructure stacks.
• Innovate and improve system processes.

Preferred Qualifications:

• This role is open only to Singapore Citizens, as the scope of work involves government projects that require citizenship for clearance and compliance purposes.
• Advanced proficiency in Oracle Database technologies (RAC, Data Guard, ASM, RMAN, performance tuning).
• Expertise in Oracle Engineered Systems and subsystems, including deployment, optimization, and maintenance.
• Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex hardware/software issues, conduct root cause analysis, and implement mitigation strategies.
• Strong operational knowledge of Linux platforms (RHEL, OEL), including system administration and maintenance.
• Experience in automation using Python and shell scripting to streamline processes and improve system efficiency.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (OCI, AWS, Azure, GCP) is a plus.
• Excellent communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Working knowledge of security best practices for web applications and network infrastructure.
• Proficiency in configuration management tools to optimize system operations.

Qualifications
Career Level - IC3

About Us
As a world leader in cloud solutions, Oracle uses tomorrow's technology to tackle today's challenges. We've partnered with industry-leaders in almost every sector—and continue to thrive after 40+ years of change by operating with integrity.

We know that true innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That's why we're committed to growing an inclusive workforce that promotes opportunities for all.

Oracle careers open the door to global opportunities where work-life balance flourishes. We offer competitive benefits based on parity and consistency and support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.

We're committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for a disability at any point, let us know by emailing accommodation- or by calling in the United States.

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans' status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

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Database Engineer
role at
Singapore Airlines .
Job Description
The successful candidate will be part of the Cloud & Platforms Department within Singapore Airlines' Information Technology Division.
Key Responsibilities
Review business requirements and perform impact analysis.
Work with IT and business units to propose IT solutions by refining specifications and requirements based on available technology. Liaise with business users and developers to refine user stories.
Design and develop quality and sustainable digital solutions for initiatives and enhancements using best software development practices.
Create and maintain software documentation, including solution proposals, detailed technical design, and test scripts.
Assist in estimating work effort and setting realistic schedules for development.
Anticipate potential issues that may impact implementation. Support applications and track prompt resolution of problems and issues.
Be adaptable to new Gen AI ways of work and development for efficient and defect-free delivery.
Requirements
Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer with at least 5 years in application development.
Proficiency in Java and one frontend framework/library (e.g., React, Angular, Vue.js).
Experience with application design, solutioning (including database design), and software development.
Hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and API Gateway.
Experience with APIs, Java-based Web Services (SOAP UI), Multimedia Content Development, session management.
Experience with containerization tools like Docker and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.
Familiarity with modern DevOps practices, CI/CD pipeline.
Possess a degree in Information Technology or related fields.
Strong analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills.
Understanding of Web UI Design, cross-browser compatibility, web standards.
Good to have experience or knowledge of Apache Camel.
Knowledge in other IT areas (network, servers, security, middleware, AWS) is advantageous.
Knowledge of Gen AI tools such as ChatGPT, Germini, Github Co-Pilot is useful.
We thank all candidates for your interest in Singapore Airlines, and regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
Additional Details
Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
Employment type: Full-time
Job function: Information Technology
Industries: Airlines and Aviation
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We are looking for a Database Engineer to handle the comprehensive design, analysis, creation, manipulation, and organisation of database systems.

Responsibilities:

• Assist in database design and implementation based on business requirements.
• Develop and maintain database schemas, tables, views, and stored procedures.
• Perform database tuning and optimisation to ensure optimal performance.
• Implement data security measures and access controls.
• Troubleshoot database issues and provide timely resolution.
• Collaborate with development teams to integrate database functionality into applications.
• Conduct regular backups and ensure data integrity and availability.
• Stay updated with emerging database technologies and best practices.
• Assist in the documentation of database processes and procedures.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or equivalent
• Minimum 1 year of experience as a Database Administrator, Analyst, Engineer or in a similar position
• Hands-on expertise in database optimisation, performance tuning, and data recovery
• Proficient in Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, or PostgreSQL
• Familiar with database architecture, data modelling, and security
• Experience in High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions
• Planning skills, including sizing databases for storage needs
• Relevant certifications are mandatory