Software Engineer, Backend
Lalamove · Hong Kong SAR
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Jul 14, 2026
Hong Kong SAR
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A backend software engineering role focused on building and maintaining features for a driver-facing mobile app and its supporting APIs. The work involves designing and implementing scalable microservices and systems, optimizing algorithms, and supporting platform growth across users, drivers, and orders. Suited to candidates with hands-on backend experience, ideally in Java, with familiarity in MySQL, microservices architecture, and middleware technologies.
Mid level · 2+ years · National · Bachelor's required · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The posting references a Candidate Privacy Notice at a Hong Kong URL (lalamove.com/en-hk) and describes expansion 'across Asia', strongly suggesting this role is based outside the United States — likely Hong Kong or another Asian market. No specific city is stated in the JD, so no CBSA is assigned and the US-based flag is set to false.
Java is listed as 'preferably' in the requirements section but is the only named backend language and sits within the hard-requirements block; treated as a required skill with the understanding that strong equivalents might be considered.
Middleware experience (Redis, ElasticSearch, Kafka, RabbitMQ) is explicitly called 'an advantage', placing it in the preferred category. All four are grouped as interchangeable alternatives under a single middleware skill.
AWS cloud experience is described as 'have experience/exposure to', which reads as preferred rather than a hard gate.
The degree requirement ('University graduate in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related fields') is stated alongside the experience requirement in the requirements block with no 'or equivalent experience' escape clause, so it is treated as a hard requirement.
This role's work location reads as outside the US — the candidate pool, comp, and contention benchmarks here are US-only (BLS employment, Adzuna/USAJOBS demand, and certified H-1B wages), so treat them as a rough US reference, not a local market.
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