Backend Engineer, User Safety and Content Moderation Team

Backend Engineer, User Safety and Content Moderation Team

Department: Backend

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Singapore


Description

We are looking for an experienced backend developer who will be focusing on making BandLab a healthy and safe platform for our users.

You will be fighting against spam and bots, working on moderation tools, and taking care of our users' privacy and security. You will be part of a high-performing and highly motivated backend team. You’re going to brainstorm with product managers, designers, backend, and frontend engineers to conceptualize and build new features for our large and growing user base. Be ready to design, implement and manage web services that impact millions of users. The role will help you grow in an environment passionate about knowledge-sharing and code review.

We are a diverse and distributed team, where some roles are tied to particular regions or time zones to ensure effective connection and collaboration during work hours. If you are considering this role as a remote opportunity outside of Singapore, please note that our standard working hours are 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM (local time) for everyone within the GMT+2 to GMT+9 time zones. Candidates based outside of this range will be expected to adjust their working hours to align with the team’s schedule.

Key Responsibilities

  • Software development based on high-level requirements: estimating, developing, code review, performance optimization, documentation
  • Collaborate with team members on design and implementation
  • Communicate with other teams during the analysis and development phase
  • Design and implement RESTful APIs
  • Write understandable, testable, and maintainable code
  • Work on analytical systems, to search and destroy any spam-related threats as soon as possible
  • Develop services for analyzing texts, pictures, and behavior of potential spammers

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Essential requirements:
  • At least 5 years of software engineering experience
  • Hands-on experience building backend systems for trust, safety, and abuse prevention at scale
  • Proficiency in SQL, work experience with RDBMS and NoSQL
  • Understanding of software engineering best practices including unit testing, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and source control
  • Ability to work in a disciplined Agile environment with a commitment to appropriate engineering practices and regular delivery cycles
Nice-to-haves:
  • Strong knowledge of .NET/C# and ASP.NET Core
  • Work experience with any cloud provider: AWS, Azure, GCP
  • Proficiency in any of Azure Log Analytics Kusto, Google BigQuery standard SQL, AWS CloudWatch Logs Insights
  • Understanding of CQRS and Event Sourcing

Location and Benefits

We are a diverse and distributed team, where some roles are tied to particular regions or time zones to ensure effective connection and collaboration during work hours. 

If you are considering this role as a remote opportunity outside of Singapore, please note that our standard working hours are 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM (local time) for everyone within the GMT+2 to GMT+9 time zones. Candidates based outside of this range will be expected to adjust their working hours to align with the team’s schedule.

Singapore HQ benefits:
  • Healthcare, dental insurance
  • Annual bonus
  • Hybrid work arrangement
  • Paid annual leave, sick leave, childcare leave, volunteer leave and maternity leave
  • BandLab Technologies staff discount
Remote work benefits:
  • Paid annual leave
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