[Skip to main content](#main-content) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) [Hiring report](/reports/hiring/) · [All Delivery Hero jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/delivery-hero/) · [Search jobs](/search/) Delivery Hero · Singapore # Principal Backend Software Engineer Singapore Full-time Senior individual contributor Software Engineering Listed on Delivery Hero’s official careers site. Posted July 9, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there. [Apply on Delivery Hero’s careers site →](https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/DeliveryHero/744000136767869-principal-backend-software-engineer) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) / [Delivery Hero](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/delivery-hero/) / Principal Backend Software Engineer ## Job description We are seeking a dynamic Principal Backend Software Engineer to join our Transaction Tribe, which focuses on products designed to help us acquire, retain, and grow our customer base. In this role, you will lead the design and development of our backend systems, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, and built for extensibility. You will have a significant impact on how we build and deliver backend services that power our products. Equally important is your ability to empower and mentor colleagues, helping them grow in their roles. You will serve as a role model in introducing change, demonstrating that ambitious goals can be achieved. By inspiring and rallying other engineers, you will help drive innovation and ensure we accomplish even the most challenging projects. The ideal candidate has extensive experience with backend systems, including service-oriented architectures, APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure. You are comfortable working with CI/CD pipelines, observability tools, and have a passion for building efficient, reusable, and high-performance components. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver consistent, reliable, and scalable experiences for our products that directly impact customer growth and engagement. Join us in creating products that help our customers discover, engage with, and love our platform. Every system and service you build will enhance user experience, accelerate growth, and contribute to long-term customer satisfaction and loyalty across diverse markets. ### Key Responsibilities Backend Architecture & Strategy: Lead the architecture, development, and implementation of backend systems, ensuring they are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with the long-term vision of the Transaction Tribe. ### Reusable Service & API Development Design and implement scalable services, APIs, and shared modules that can be leveraged across multiple products. Establish best practices for creating reusable backend components that promote efficiency, consistency, and maintainability. ### Cross-Team Collaboration Work closely with product, UX, and frontend teams to understand requirements and ensure backend capabilities support both current and future product needs, enabling growth-focused initiatives. ### Performance & Optimization Lead efforts in system performance monitoring, tuning, and optimization, ensuring high availability, low latency, and efficient resource utilization. Identify and resolve system-wide issues in databases, caching layers, message queues, and other backend components. ### Security & Compliance Ensure that backend systems adhere to security best practices and regulatory standards. Integrate security, data protection, and compliance features into the architecture to safeguard customer and company data. ### Leadership & Mentorship Provide technical leadership and guidance to backend engineers, mentoring senior and mid-level staff. Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement, raising the technical bar across the team. ### Research & Innovation Stay up-to-date on the latest backend technologies, cloud platforms, and system design patterns, and drive long-term innovation by introducing cutting-edge solutions that improve scalability, reliability, and growth metrics. ## Qualifications ### What you can bring to the table Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent education or practical experience. 10+ years of experience in backend engineering, with a strong focus on scalable, complex systems, distributed architecture, and service-oriented design. Proven experience in guiding engineering strategy at an organizational level. Strong expertise in backend programming languages and frameworks (preferably Go) and a deep understanding of system design, APIs, and microservices architecture. Extensive experience with building and operating high-performance, highly available backend systems, including databases, caching, message queues, and event-driven architectures. Proficiency in designing modular, reusable, and maintainable backend components for large-scale systems. Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment workflows for backend services. Proven ability to lead and mentor engineering teams, providing technical direction, promoting best practices, and fostering collaboration across cross-functional teams. Strong track record of aligning engineering strategies with company objectives, balancing speed, quality, and impact. Experience in performance tuning, debugging, and optimization of large-scale systems, including expertise in concurrency, distributed computing, database optimization, and reliability engineering. Passion for driving innovation and building systems that scale with growth, especially in customer-focused products that acquire, retain, and engage users. ## At a glance - Posted by the employer: Jul 9, 2026 - First seen by OpenNash: Oct 12, 2026 - Last checked: Oct 19, 2026 - Listed for: 102 days - Location: Singapore - Employment type: Full-time[Apply on Delivery Hero’s careers site →](https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/DeliveryHero/744000136767869-principal-backend-software-engineer) ## More jobs at Delivery Hero ### [Senior Backend Software Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/delivery-hero/jobs/afa1d8b1df3233134e87/) Singapore ### [iOS Software Engineer II](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/delivery-hero/jobs/4dc3ee9ef186d6b4eace/) Singapore ### [Business Development Manager](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/delivery-hero/jobs/f447978019704520fe56/) Singapore ### [Category Manager](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/delivery-hero/jobs/ed4f7f35c50fe598e4b6/) Singapore ## Similar jobs at other companies ### [Principal Software Engineer - Backend](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/microsoft/jobs/ed743cc2f73fce310a0e/) Microsoft · India, Uttar Pradesh, Noida ### [Backend Software Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/mercadolibre/jobs/0f89f7f03fde9a983efb/) MercadoLibre · Córdoba, Argentina ### [Software Engineer Backend](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/mercadolibre/jobs/08a96f6f86496a1359b2/) MercadoLibre · Montevideo, Uruguay ### [Backend Software Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/vodafone/jobs/eba8c1fed6d5f48c234c/) Vodafone · Bucuresti, Romania OpenNash lists jobs from employers’ own careers sites and does not handle applications. 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