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. You 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.
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