Senior Associate, Software Engineer

WHY JOIN US?

• We practice a vibrant & energetic office culture.
• We provide opportunities for career advancement within the company.
• Good performance is always rewarded accordingly.

“ It's our people that make Astro Malaysia’s leading entertainment company. We are an inclusive employer, to enable everyone at Astro to be their best. We embrace differences – we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products/services and our community. We also understand and appreciate that diversity is a driver of creativity and innovation, which will make our business more competitive, compelling and profitable. ”

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

What you will do

You'll be a key engineer on our Self Service team, building the digital products that millions of Astro subscribers use to manage their accounts . The apps we build include the My Astro app , astro.com.my , My NJOI app, and internal apps for employees and dealers .

• Own end-to-end delivery of customer-facing features across our web and mobile apps , from system design through to production monitoring
• Build and maintain backend services and APIs in Node.js/TypeScript that power self-service journeys ( subscriptions, billing, entitlements, and account management )
• Develop responsive, performant frontends using React and Next.js, with strong attention to UX across device types
• Design and ship AI-assisted features , including conversational interfaces, intelligent search, and LLM-powered tooling leveraging cloud AI services such as AWS Bedrock or equivalent
• Work with AWS infrastructure (Lambda, EKS, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB) to build reliable, cost-aware systems and contribute to infra decisions
• Integrate with third-party platforms and internal systems such as payment gateways, CMS, identity/SSO
• Write automated tests (unit, integration) and participate in code reviews that raise the bar for the whole team
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket Pipelines) and support a healthy production environment through monitoring, alerting, and incident response
• Collaborate with product managers and designers in an Agile team, from sprint planning through to retrospectives
• Mentor junior engineers and help build a culture of shared ownership and continuous improvement

REQUIREMENTS

Who you are

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent on production full-stack systems
• Fluent in TypeScript/JavaScript across backend (Node.js : Express, Fastify , or similar) and frontend (React, Next.js)
• Experience designing and building scalable RESTful APIs and integrating with third-party services
• Experience with databases across relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL) or NoSQL (DynamoDB)
• Comfortable with state management ( Zustand , Redux) and data fetching patterns (SWR, React Query)
• Strong UI skills using Tailwind CSS or comparable frameworks; you care about cross-device quality
• Good instincts around security, observability, and production hygiene (logging, alerting, cost-aware resource usage)
• Work well across cross-functional teams and communicates clearly . Y ou can translate technical trade-offs for non-engineers
• Experience with development on AWS or a similar public cloud provider is a plus.
• Hands-on with AI/LLM integration including building features with AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, or similar is a plus.