Job Description
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
Requirements
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
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Imagine a career where you play a pivotal role in ensuring the success and bright future of 80 million children in Indonesia. Tentang Anak is not just a company; it's a mission, a movement, and an opportunity to be part of something truly extraordinary.
Tentang Anak, at its core, is driven by a mission to advance the well-being and development of 80 million children throughout Indonesia. Founded by a team of experts, including pediatricians, child psychologists, and early childhood educators, we are steadfast in our commitment to supporting children with the most reliable education and products. From educational tools (e.g., applications, books, flashcards, puzzles) to essential skincare, Tentang Anak aims to accompany and provide the best solutions for parents and their children, from the moment they wake up until they fall asleep.
Our products are the one and only in Indonesia that are developed by experts, backed by science, and offered at affordable prices. We are humbled by the love our products receive from parents, consistently ranking our Educational Tools and Skincare highly on e-commerce platforms, making them best-sellers. We will continue to innovate and provide better solutions for parents at every step of their journey. We are dedicated to creating a brighter, healthier, and happier future for the children of Indonesia.
Our employees, whom we call TAmily, are a group of relentless and passionate individuals who share the same mission and ambitions. Are you ready to join us in this mission?
