Job Description
Job Title: Staff Engineer
Location: Kuala Lumpur
About AirAsia MOVE
AirAsia MOVE is a leading ASEAN-focused budget travel OTA, part of the Capital A Group. We deliver customer-centric travel solutions by combining innovation with operational excellence. Our goal is to create seamless, reliable, and delightful journeys for travelers across the region.
About the Role
We are seeking a hands-on Staff Engineer to drive technical excellence and own the technology roadmap for key OTA services. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and operating highly available, scalable systems, mentoring developers, and collaborating closely with engineering leadership. You will help shape team culture, make architectural trade-offs with confidence, and solve complex problems under tight deadlines.
Core Competence
Deep coding, system design, and architecture expertise
Cross-functional system knowledge for resilience, availability, and scale
Confident in architectural and design trade-offs
Strong debugging and problem-solving skills
Ability to own and evolve the team’s technical roadmap
Proficiency in AI-driven tools and processes to boost developer productivity and automation
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership
Provide architectural oversight and review designs for services, APIs, and data flows
Make informed trade-offs between performance, reliability, and speed to market
Define and enforce coding standards, design patterns, and best practices
Mentor engineers on system design, code quality, and operational excellence
System Design & Development
Design and implement robust, scalable, and secure backend services (Java, Spring Boot, or similar)
Ensure services meet high availability, fault tolerance, and low-latency requirements
Troubleshoot production issues, conduct root cause analysis, and drive continuous improvements
Own end-to-end delivery: from requirements gathering to deployment, monitoring, and support
Collaboration & Roadmap Ownership
Work closely with Product, DevOps, QA, and other stakeholders to align on priorities and delivery timelines
Translate business requirements into technical solutions and present them to non-technical audiences
Own the team’s technology roadmap: evaluate new tools, platforms, and architectural patterns
Foster a culture of experimentation, documentation, and knowledge sharing
Operational Excellence
Collaborate with SRE/DevOps to establish effective monitoring, alerting, and Devsecops strategies
Ensure services adhere to security, compliance, and data-privacy standards
Drive capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost-optimization initiatives
Required Qualifications & Experience
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
8+ years of backend development experience, with at least 3 years in a leadership or senior architect role
Expert in Java (Spring Boot) or equivalent backend stacks (Nodejs, Go, Python, etc.)
Proven track record of designing and operating microservices at scale (REST APIs, event-driven architectures)
Strong understanding of relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (Redis, MongoDB) databases
Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
Excellent debugging skills and the ability to diagnose complex distributed system issues
Demonstrated ability to mentor and grow engineering teams
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with messaging systems (Kafka, gcp pubsub) and caching strategies
Familiarity with observability tools esp. with OpenTelemetry
Experience with DevSecOps practices: CI/CD pipelines, code scanning, secret management, SCA, SAST, DAST among others
Quality Automation for all critical applications
Understanding of frontend technologies (React, ReactNative, Flutter) to align backend design with UI requirements
Why Join AirAsia MOVE?
Lead the architecture and scaling of a high-traffic travel platform
Work in a fast-paced environment where your technical decisions have direct impact
Collaborate with a diverse, high-performing team passionate about travel and technology
Competitive compensation and career-development opportunities