Job Description

Job Title: Principal Engineer – Backend
Location: Bangalore, India
About AirAsia MOVE
AirAsia MOVE is a energetic ASEAN-focused budget travel platform redefining how people experience and book travel. As part of Capital A, we’re building products that span flights, hotels, e-hailing, experiences, payments, and more—powered by a tech-first mindset and a relentless focus on customer experience. Join us in shaping the digital future of travel across the region.
About the Role
As a Principal Engineer – Backend, you will drive the architectural strategy, scalability, and resilience of MOVE’s backend services. You'll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to design distributed systems, evolve our microservices infrastructure, and mentor senior engineers across backend squads. Your work will directly impact millions of users as we scale regionally.
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
- ## Own end-to-end architecture for complex, large-scale systems with long-term scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
- ## Make high-impact technical decisions and guide trade-offs across multiple domains and platforms.
- ## Set engineering standards, best practices, and governance models adopted across teams.
- ## Lead deep technical design reviews, critical incident postmortems, and complex problem investigations.
- ## Mentor senior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.
- ## Partner cross-functionally with product, security, infra, and business teams to align on strategic priorities.
- ## Evaluate emerging technologies and d

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