Principal Software Engineer - Marketplace

Bengaluru
ODS - Technology – - /
Permanent /
On-site
About the Role

Roll up your sleeves and climb on board if you’re ready to be our next Principal Software Engineer. In this role, you will be an integral player in the Marketplace team based in Bangalore, India. With knowledge of building scalable applications, current user trends and preferences, and emerging technologies in the field, you will get to design, manage, and improve various applications. You will also get to enhance the engineering platform and cloud infrastructure used by all engineers, thereby improving the team's overall productivity. In our humble opinion, the coolest part is your ability to own the future of these products, ensuring its quality and longevity, and seeing the results of your efforts in people's everyday lives.


What You Will Do

    • Be solely responsible for the entire life-cycle of high complexity projects or features including engineering design, development, and deployment within their stream
    • Ensure the planning & timely delivery of work within their stream, under the guidance from more experienced engineers
    • Improve code structure and architecture in service of test ability and maintainability, and; write, co-write, and review design documentation. Participate in the design review process, seeking and providing constructive criticism
    • Be accountable for the operationalization of the tracking and reporting of at least one execution metric (like code coverage, velocity)
    • Split complex engineering task into smaller components which can be developed by other engineers on the team
    • Mentor other engineers on an individual basis and participate in the hiring process

What You Will Need

    • At least 8 years of relevant, hands-on experience with Clojure, Golang, or Java
    • Able to go into depth across tech stack used in the product
    • Experience working on large-scale event-driven micro-services architecture with an active use of Kafka and can architect solutions based on this pattern
    • Familiarity with basic programming principles such as SOLID and TDD
    • Intermediate experience with Linux OS and is able to troubleshoot issues
    • Understands why we need to test code and has implemented tests
    • Able to understand/discuss design and performance trade offs in complex systems
About the Team

The Marketplace Supply Team at Gojek handles the hardest quantitative problems related to improving Gojek's real-time marketplace, which deeply impacts the everyday experiences of our customers (riders) and drivers. We are responsible for the pillars of technology, science, and strategy across the supply-and-demand, matching of over two billion global orders in 2019. The gist of our role is to oversee that Gojek's millions of customers are paired with the right drivers at the optimum price at the right time. This supply and demand matching is the core problem that our Product Team tackles every day. 

We are a tight-knit group made up of avid readers, amateur gamers, coffee connoisseurs and (guilty) reality show watchers. We work hard and play hard, and believe it or not, we actually enjoy each other’s company! 


About GoTo Group
GoTo Group is the largest digital ecosystem in Indonesia with its mission to “Empower Progress’ by offering technological infrastructure and solutions for everyone to access and thrive in the digital economy. The GoTo ecosystem consists of on-demand transportation services, food and grocery delivery, logistics and fulfillment, as well as financial and payment services through the Gojek and GoTo Financial platforms.It is the first platform in Southeast Asia that hosts these crucial cases in a single ecosystem, capturing the majority of Indonesia’s vast consumer household.

About Gojek 
Gojek is Southeast Asia’s leading on-demand platform and pioneer of the multi-service ecosystem with over 2.5 million driver partners across the regions offering a wide range of services such as transportation, food delivery, logistics and more. With its mission to create impact at scale, Gojek is committed to resolving consumer problems and raising standards of living by connecting consumers to the best providers of goods and services in the market.

About GoTo Financial
GoTo Financial accelerates financial inclusion through its leading financial services and merchants solutions. Its consumer services include GoPay and GoPayLater and serve businesses of all sizes through Midtrans, Moka, GoBiz Plus, GoBiz, and Selly. With its trusted and inclusive ecosystem of products, GoTo Financial is open to new growth opportunities and aims to empower everyone to Make It Happen, Make It Together, Make It Last.

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