Staff Engineer

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