Backend Engineer

About Us

99 Group is a leading real estate technology company that operates real estate portals across South East Asia specialising in digital property advertising. Headquartered in Singapore it is currently operational in Singapore and Indonesia and employs over 500 Singapore 99 Group operates and while in Indonesia it operates and Rumah123.

Join Us and Lead the Real Estate Revolution!

We are looking for a Software Engineer who is passionate about building scalable systems and has strong computer science fundamentals. This is an excellent opportunity for fresh graduates or junior engineers (1-2 years experience) to grow their skills in a fast-paced engineering environment while working on real-world backend systems and cloud-native applications.

Your Role: Backend Engineer

What Youll Be Doing:

• Develop and maintain backend services RESTful APIs and integrate with various data stores under the guidance of senior engineers.
• Write clean maintainable and well-tested code following established team standards and best practices.
• Participate in code reviews learning from feedback and contributing constructive input to peers.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product Managers designers and other engineers to deliver features.
• Debug and troubleshoot issues across the application stack from API endpoints to database queries.
• Learn and adopt cloud-native development practices and modern software engineering tools.
• Take ownership of assigned tasks and proactively communicate progress blockers and learnings.
• Contribute to technical documentation and knowledge sharing within the team.

What Were Looking For:

• Fresh graduate with a degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or related field OR 1-2 years of professional software development experience.
• Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals: data structures algorithms and object-oriented programming.
• Hands-on experience building RESTful APIs (through internships personal projects or professional work).
• Solid understanding of database concepts:Know the differences between SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Understand when to use relational vs. non-relational databases based on use case.
• Familiar with SQL query optimization and performance tuning techniques (indexing query plans etc.).
• Quick learner with a growth mindset and genuine curiosity about technology.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to break down complex problems into manageable pieces.
• Good communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Self-motivated with a willingness to learn from code reviews pair programming and mentorship.

Good to Have:

• Prior internship experience at a technology company or startup.
• Experience with backend languages such as Golang Python Java or (JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS GCP Azure Tencent AliCloud) and containerization (Docker).
• Understanding of version control (Git) and collaborative development workflows.
• Exposure to microservices architecture or distributed systems concepts.

Are you ready to shape the future of real estate Join us in this exciting journey of innovation collaboration and growth. Together lets redefine whats possible in the world of real estate.

Make your mark at 99 Group. Apply now!