Senior Software Engineer

SALT Talent is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer for one of the tech clients in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for 12 months & renewable contract role. This is a hands‑on senior individual contributor role with significant technical ownership.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and maintain backend services and front‑end features using TypeScript across Node.js and React
• Own services end‑to‑end: from design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, incident response and continuous improvement
• Build reliable, scalable systems on AWS (e.g. Lambda/ECS, API Gateway, DynamoDB, RDS/PostgreSQL, S3)
• Work closely with product managers, designers, BAs and data specialists in a cross‑functional, outcome‑focused squad

Qualification:

• 5+ years software engineering experience, with substantial time at Senior Engineer level or equivalent
• Strong TypeScript skills across front‑end and/or back‑end, ideally in product‑focused teams
• Proven experience designing, building and operating production web services or event‑driven systems on a major cloud (preferably AWS)
• Front‑end: React, micro‑frontends, experience working with design systems
• Back‑end: Node.js (TypeScript), REST and GraphQL (including Hirer GraphQL APIs)

CEI No: R1659595 / EA No: 07C3147