Our Journey

The ShopBack Group is Asia-Pacific's leading shopping, rewards, and payments platform, serving over 20 million active members across 13 markets. In ****, the Group continued its global growth with its expansion into North America. Driven by the vision to make every day more rewarding, ShopBack is dedicated to saving members money and time, and delivering delight every day. The platform also enables merchants and brands to engage with their members in a cost-effective manner. Founded in ****, ShopBack now powers over US$5.5 billion in annual sales for over 20,000 online and in-store partners, and has rewarded shoppers with more than US$900 million (over S$1 billion) in Cashback to date. Through its innovative offerings, ShopBack continues to create value for both members and merchants. Notably, its payment solution, ShopBack Pay, offers members a convenient and rewarding payment option at checkout.
Your Adventure Ahead

Lead and deliver large‐scale travel platform components such as flight/hotel search, pricing/availability aggregation, booking flows, or content systems.
Contribute to ideation, technical design, implementation, and testing of high‐impact travel product features.
Design and build robust, scalable distributed systems capable of handling real‐time travel inventory and pricing.
Architect clean, well‐structured APIs used by client applications for search, booking, and trip management.
Collaborate closely with Product, Data, and UX teams to shape the future of the ShopBack Travel experience.
Work with external partners (OTAs, GDS, suppliers) to integrate APIs, understand domain constraints, and improve reliability.
Drive engineering best practices, mentor other engineers, and elevate technical standards within the team.
Analyze complex requirements, propose pragmatic solutions, and articulate trade-offs clearly.
Essentials to Succeed

7+ years of experience building consumer‐facing platforms or distributed backend systems.
Travel / OTA experience strongly preferred.Ideal candidates have prior experience working within the travel or OTA ecosystem — such as flight metasearch, hotel aggregation,



activity marketplaces, travel content platforms, or GDS/LCC/API integrations — and understand the complexities of pricing, availability, and supplier systems.
Experience with flight or hotel domains is a strong advantage: availability, fare rules, rates & inventory, ranking/relevance, caching strategy, or booking orchestration.
Hands-on experience working with Node.js (preferred) or other backend technologies.
Experience deploying applications into cloud environments (AWS highly desirable).
Strong understanding of API design, microservices, and event-driven architecture.
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, complex technical environment with high ambiguity.
Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and third-party partners.
Demonstrated use of Generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude) to develop new or improve workflows, enhance productivity, and drive efficiency at scale
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field
Technologies We Use & Love

Cloud: AWS
Infra: Kubernetes
Programming languages: NodeJS / Typescript
Relational database: Postgres
Message queue: Kafka, SQS
Continuous Integration: Gitlab
Monitoring: DataDog
Big Data: Redshift, Spark, S3, etc.
Communication: Slack
Project Management: JIRA / Confluence
Other technologies:
Knative Eventing / Serving
Debezium + Kafka Connec
ShopBacker Traits

Agency- We take ownership and act, rather than waiting for permission. When something's blocking progress, we find a way through it and follow through until it's done.
Judgement- We aim for high-impact decisions, not just easy wins, and we put the bigger picture ahead of individual interests.



That means moving quickly and confidently, while staying thoughtful about when a call really matters.
Learning Velocity- We pick up new skills fast and let go of old habits just as quickly when something better comes along. We benchmark ourselves against the best and keep raising our own bar.
Tenacity- We stay in it when things get hard, keeping a level head under pressure. We debate openly before deciding, then commit fully — and support each other along the way.

What's in it for ShopBackers

Career growthopportunities to take on greater challenges that help you realise your ambitions.
Be part of a winning teamon a journey to global scale.
Competitive compensationbased on performance.
Candid, open, and collaborative culturewhere feedback is valued.
We are committed to protecting your data and ensuring fairness in our recruitment process. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help our team review applications, analyse resumes, match candidates to roles, generate interview notes, and assess responses. These tools assist our recruiters and interviewers and they do not make final hiring decisions. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If an assessment is part of your process, we may (with your consent) capture screen activity and/or webcam images during the test to help verify test integrity. We do not use AI to infer your emotions or sensitive traits. We process personal data lawfully, securely, and transparently in line with applicable data-protection laws and our commitment to fair employment. You can ask questions or exercise your rights including to request human review or to challenge an outcome by contacting ******. ShopBack is an equal prospect employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable laws. Join our team and help us make a difference!

📌 Senior Backend Engineer - System Integration (New South Wales)
🏢 Shopback
📍 New South Wales