WHY JOIN US?

• We practice a vibrant & energetic office culture.

• We provide opportunities for career advancement within the company.

• Good performance is always rewarded accordingly.

“It's our people that make Astro Malaysia’s leading entertainment company. We are an inclusive employer, to enable everyone at Astro to be their best. We embrace differences – we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products/services and our community. We also understand and appreciate that diversity is a driver of creativity and innovation, which will make our business more competitive, compelling and profitable.”

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Driving successful project deliveries for Back-End development team  
• Keeping the team spirit high in delivering good quality products and achieving team goals  
• Alignment and communication between all teams such as Back-end Development, Design and Product Development team to drive the success of each development sprint.  
• Perform planning for back-end related projects  
• Design, implement and maintain back-end under Digital Astro Ecosystem team  
• Driving all APIs, components and code base are consistent, secured and meeting the industry standards  
• Driving the backend are optimized for all screens for maximum speed and scalability  
• R&D and introducing new features to improve back-end performance and enhance user experiences  
• Driving all codes and components are reusable code for future use  
• Consistently performing code review  
• Leading, applying and practicing SCRUM ceremonies for each of the projects  
• Mentoring & coaching the junior team members and vendors  

REQUIREMENTS:

WHO YOU ARE:

• 5+ experience in back-end development, experience with front-end development will be a plus. 
• Experience with Backend Technologies like NodeJS, ExpressJS, Kubernetes, API Gateway, DynamoDB and other AWS Services  
• Excellent verbal and interpersonal skills  
• Good exposure to many of the latest technologies which include REACT, NodeJS, serverless and cloud architecture  
• Good understanding in CMS (Content Management System) technologies
• Excellent knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and back-end development  
• Keen to deliver quality and testable code by planning, documentation, coding standards, unit testing, and integration testing  
• Fluent in Git  
• Must have a very good understanding and experience of seamless CI/CD end to end to achieve one-click delivery  
• Excellent exposure to Agile Methodologies especially Scrum  
• Able to conduct all SCRUM ceremonies  
• Passion for developing new ideas and approaches, for demonstrable and sustainable continuous improvement  
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment, experienced with multi-cultural environments