Backend Engineer

Tanggung Jawab

Tentang Anak is Indonesia’s leading parenting platform, combining expert-backed content, commerce, and community to support millions of families. As our product and user base grow, the reliability, performance, and scalability of our backend systems become even more critical.

• We’re looking for a
• Senior Backend Engineer

who is ready to own complex systems, lead architecture decisions, mentor others, and drive lasting technical impact across our app and services.

• What You’ll Own
• Backend Architecture & Development

: Develop, design and maintain robust backend systems (monolithic and microservices), including API development and third-party integrations.

• Performance Optimization
• : Benchmark, refactor, and proactively improve performance and reliability of core backend services, caching layers, and data stores.
• Technical Leadership

: Make sound technical decisions, review code at a high standard, guide architectural direction, and elevate team-wide engineering practices.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

: Work closely with PMs, QA, Infra/DevOps, and stakeholders to align technical solutions with business outcomes. And also supporting business operations.

Mentorship & Team Growth

: Actively coach junior and mid-level engineers, participate in hiring and interviews, and foster a culture of quality, speed, and ownership.

• What Success Looks Like (6–12 Months)
• Owns high-impact backend systems, ensuring they’re reliable, scalable, and well-documented
• Makes key architectural decisions that reduce tech debt and support product velocity
• Coaches junior/mid engineers to greater independence and technical judgment
• Leads the successful delivery of features and infrastructure projects, including planning, estimation, and stakeholder communication
• Supports incident response and actively improves system observability and monitoring
• Participates in hiring by contributing to interviews, onboarding, and engineering culture-building

Kualifikasi

• You’re a Fit If You…
• Have
• 5+ years
• of backend engineering experience, ideally in fast-paced product environments

Have hands-on experience with building and maintaining microservices architectures, performance tuning, and implementing monitoring and observability in production environments

• Fluent in
• PHP (Laravel)
• NodeJS, and Golang
• , and experienced with
• MySQL
• Understand caching systems (Redis, Memcached), search (ElasticSearch), and event-driven architecture (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Are familiar with API Gateway, CI/CD, TDD, Docker, Git Flow, and Linux development
• Know how to analyze logs, debug production issues, and make smart trade-offs under pressure
• Can balance engineering best practices with pragmatic decision-making when trade-offs are necessary
• Communicate clearly across teams, give and receive feedback well, and take initiative without waiting to be told
• Open to feedback, and know when to listen, when to challenge, and when to stand firm
• Care about building systems that are both technically sound and solve real user problems
• Experienced in integrating with 3rd party systems or vendors