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Toku

Senior Software Engineer – Distributed Systems

Toku

Senior Software Engineer designing and building distributed systems for cloud communications at Toku. Collaborating with teams to deliver robust backend services and APIs.

Posted 7/8/2026full-timeRemote • 🇲🇾 MalaysiaSeniorWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and operating production backend systems, with a strong focus on cloud-native engineering principles and scalable distributed architectures. Proficient in backend service development using Go, along with experience in monitoring and improving system performance.

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Production Backend Systems DesignGo Programming LanguageDistributed Systems ArchitectureAWS Cloud EngineeringSQL Schema Design

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Hard Skills
Backend Service DevelopmentMicroservices ArchitectureAPI IntegrationEvent-Driven SystemsPerformance OptimisationIncident ResponseTroubleshootingContinuous Reliability ImprovementsSchema DesignQuery Optimisation
Soft Skills
Problem SolvingInfluencing Technical Direction
Tools & Technologies
AWSKafkaRabbitMQAWS SQS
Industry Keywords
Cloud CommunicationsBackend ServicesOperational Improvement

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSCloudDistributed SystemsGoKafkaMicroservicesRabbitMQSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Design, build and evolve robust backend services and APIs that power Toku's cloud communications platform.
  • Design and develop scalable distributed systems and microservices.
  • Build and evolve event-driven systems using technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
  • Develop backend integrations connecting Toku's platform with external communication providers.
  • Develop and operate backend services on AWS using modern cloud-native engineering principles.
  • Contribute to technical direction and improve architecture of backend systems.
  • Own backend systems in production, including monitoring and continuous operational improvement.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Strong hands-on experience designing, building and operating production backend systems.
  • Strong practical experience developing production backend services in Go.
  • Experience designing or operating distributed systems, microservices and backend architectures.
  • Practical experience working with technologies such as Kafka, AWS SQS, RabbitMQ or similar messaging platforms.
  • Experience designing, building and integrating production APIs and backend services.
  • Strong cloud engineering fundamentals. AWS experience is preferred.
  • Strong SQL knowledge including schema design, query optimisation and production data management.
  • Experience operating production systems, including monitoring, troubleshooting, incident response, performance optimisation and continuous reliability improvements.
  • Demonstrated ability to improve existing systems, influence technical direction and proactively solve engineering problems.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Health insurance
  • Remote work options