Position Title: IT Backend Engineer - IoT Platform & AI
Jakarta, Jakarta, ID, 12190
BE A PART OF A REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE - FIND YOUR FUTURE IN OUR FUTURE!
At PMI, we’ve chosen to do something incredible. We’re transforming our business and building our future with one clear purpose – to deliver a smoke-free future. We're disrupting our company from the inside out. Our transformation is redefining every area of our business. From where and how we make and sell our products—to how we engage our consumers and society.
To support this vision, PMI is evolving into a science and technology-based, consumer-facing, multi-category company—and Information Technology (IT) is a vital partner in helping to lead the way. As we accelerate PMI's vision, we get to dream big too.
With unique and transformative IT projects matching all levels of skill and ambition, we've taken on the spirit of a start-up, with the freedom to craft and define our digital future, but with the support and scope of a vast global business.
We are seeking a skilled Backend Engineer to join our IoT Platform team, building scalable services that power connected devices and real-time, data-driven operations. This role offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of cloud, IoT, and AI driving innovation through modern backend engineering, AI-assisted development, and advanced AWS capabilities.
YOUR DAY TO DAY
- Work closely with architects to translate solution designs into scalable and maintainable backend implementations
- Lead and contribute to technical discussions, providing guidance and support across the team
- Build backend services supporting large-scale IoT ecosystems, handling real-time data streams and event-driven architectures
- Develop and maintain backend services and APIs for the IoT platform.
- Implement scalable and secure solutions using AWS cloud services.
- Develop microservices and server-side logic using Python and Node.js.
- Lead adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices across the backend chapter (e.g. code generation, automated code review, documentation, and test creation)
- Drive integration of Generative AI services (e.g. AWS Bedrock) into backend services and developer workflows to enable smarter automation and new product capabilities
- Promote usage of AI tools (e.g. Copilot, internal agents) to improve developer productivity and reduce delivery cycle time
- Define guardrails for responsible AI usage (security, compliance, data privacy)
- Design and evolve intelligent CI/CD pipelines leveraging AI to automate test generation, detect failures and suggest root causes, and optimise performance and deployment quality
- Explore and experiment with new technologies, particularly in AI and cloud-native development, to continuously improve engineering practices and product capabilities
- Foster and build a culture of actively engaging team members in engineering and design discussions
- Introduce AI-assisted code review practices to improve consistency and reduce manual review effort
- Drive automated quality gates using static + AI-based analysis
- Actively participate in PI sessions to ensure a thorough understanding of business requirements and maintain alignment throughout the project.
- Ensure high-quality delivery practices across the development lifecycle, including releases, testing, and documentation
WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- University degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent
- Proven experience as a Backend Engineer
- Understanding of SAFe, excellent communication skills, and the ability to prioritize tasks effectively.
- Strong experience in backend development using languages such as Python or Node.js, with solid understanding of modern software design principles
- Familiarity with RESTful API design.
- Expertise in all common AWS Cloud technologies, Knowledge of CI/CD tools and workflows.
- Experience or strong interest in AI-assisted software development (e.g. Copilot, LLM-based tools, AWS Bedrock) and its application to engineering productivity and product innovation
- Experience with observability platforms (logs, metrics, tracing)
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices
- A keen eye to quality with regards to following and establishing good coding practices, improving code coverage.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and build strong relationships with stakeholders
- Good communication skills, with the ability to articulate thoughts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong problem solving skills and attention to detail.
Ultimately, personality means more to us than skills. If you have the passion and mindset, we’d urge you to apply: we will help you develop the skills.
WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN US?
At PMI IT, we believe success to be fuelled by our employees, depended on them coming to work every single day with a sense of purpose and an appetite for challenge. We are a people first organisation committed to empowering you to take risks, grow and explore. Here’s what sets us apart:
- We’re redefining the big picture of well-being and personal development. We seek the best professionals but recognize them as parents, caregivers, family, and community members. We look after each other and care for our people, so wherever you join us around the world, we’re committed to providing the type of benefits only a company like PMI can offer
- Being the fastest learning IT organization in the world is core to our culture, so we invest significantly in developing our people. From mentoring to technical certifications, stretch roles, soft skills development, and executive education, we help our people develop the skills they need to do their best work and create their own unique impact.
- At PMI IT, we believe diversity and inclusiveness are essential to every industry. We’re proud that our culture is built upon strong corporate values, a foundation of respect and belonging, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion that welcomes a variety of skill sets, backgrounds, and experiences.
- We see digital technology as disruptive, and possibilities as endless. Our teams work with innovative technologies such as Cloud, APIs, IoT and AI, supported by management practices and principles such as Agile, Design Thinking, and Product Management.
Every single IT member is part of our Transformation journey. Join us and pursue your ambitions – our staggering size and scale provides endless opportunities to progress. If our culture and mindset resonate with you, we look forward to receiving your application and getting to know you.
Together, let’s deliver a smoke free future.
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