Job Description

Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Team: Technology Department

Role: Senior Backend Developer

Mode: Full-time role

Founded in Hong Kong in early 2017, Respond.io is a Business Messaging platform that unifies customer communication for tech-savvy organizations that market, sell and support across instant messaging, web chat, and email. We are one messaging platform for various use cases like marketing purposes, sales, support, and engineering.

Role Description

At Respond.io, Senior Backend Developers are pivotal to our company’s success. We are seeking a detailed-oriented individual that is ready to be part of our integrations backend team, in charge of adding and maintaining API integrations to our partner’s applications (WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Line, etc.). Your role will focus on code development, automation, and testing to deliver quality, stable and secure integrations.

Responsibilities

Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
Write clean code to develop functional web application on top of keeping updated with new trends and best practices that can be reusable for future use.
Troubleshoot and debug application to deliver a complete and zero known-bug features on time
Solving complex performance problems and architectural challenges;
Developing and maintaining integrations to partners APIs and regularly adding more features;
Collaborate with the frontend team, product team and quality assurance team when new features are made available or one is being deprecated;
Coordinating with co-developers as well as keeping Chief Technology Officer and Team Leader well informed of the status of development effort;

Qualifications

University degree holder in Computer Science/ Software Engineering or equivalent;
At least 2 years' experience in NodeJS development or other related Javascript framework;
3+ years relevant software experience;
Track record of software testing and/or development projects;
Firm grasp of MySQL;
Great at designing patterns and algorithms;
Good understanding of Application Level Networking and component integration;
Self-starter with the ability to work independently and able to work under pressure;
Strong analytical and technical troubleshooting skills to isolate problem/defect areas;
Good communication skills in English with an ability to clearly explain complex ideas verbally and in writing;
Nimble and agile team player with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment.

Here's what's in for you

You will become part of an amazing culture with smart teammates who actually care
You will grow more here than you would anywhere else, that is a promise
Pizza parties, birthday cakes, social events (Laser tag, go-cart, paintball), you'll always be looking forward to it!
Are you a PlayStation fan? It gets fun when you get to beat your colleague on a FIFA game at the office!
You'll get to experience a very competitive compensation
You'll be covered exclusively on one of the highest medical and dental insurance especially for you
Unlimited snacks in our specially dedicated snack room. Oreos, KitKats, Gummy Bears, Chips, Biscuits, Nuts, Snickers ... you name it, we have it.
You'll be entitled to stock options with terms and condition
Flexible working environment and working hours
Beer O'Clock on Fridays? Naah, we have it every day!