Software Engineer (Backend) - DPI

Gojek (Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia)

DKI Jakarta, Indonesia

Gojek is Southeast Asia’s leading on-demand platform and a pioneer of the multi-service ecosystem model, providing access to a wide range of services including transportation, food delivery, logistics and more. Gojek is founded on the principle of leveraging technology to remove life's daily frictions by connecting consumers to the best providers of goods and services in the market. The company was first established in 2010 focusing on courier and motorcycle ride-hailing services, before launching its app in January 2015 in Indonesia. Since then, Gojek has grown to become the leading on-demand platform in Indonesia, with additional operations in Vietnam and Singapore. The Gojek platform now comprises over 2.5 million driver partners across the region. Gojek is part of the GoTo Group, the largest digital ecosystem in Indonesia, consisting of Gojek, Tokopedia and GoTo Financial. Gojek is dedicated to solving the daily challenges faced by consumers, while improving the quality of life for millions of people across Southeast Asia, especially those in the informal sector and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). The Gojek application is available for download via iOS and Android.

About this position

As a Software Engineer in the team, you will play a key role in the growth of the team. You will be exposed to complexities that will challenge your problem solving skills and will learn how to build and operate high throughput systems with agility.

Responsibilities

• Drive product development by managing both functional and nonfunctional requirements, OKRs, and improving code quality across the team
• Design and develop low-latency, high-throughput systems with minimal supervision
• Ensure the quality and timeliness of deliverables for the team
• Self-learn emerging technologies and collaborate with the team on engineering initiatives throughout the product life cycle
• Oversee the full lifecycle of feature development, including testing, deployment, bug fixes, and improvements
• Partner with tech leads, product managers, and stakeholders to advance group and organizational objectives
• Write code that is clear, efficient, well-tested, and easy for others to understand
• Communicate and collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams in a global setting

Requirements

• At least 2 years of experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying applications with Java/Golang. Proficient in OOP, SQL, Design Patterns
• Experience with data modeling experience in Relational and/or NoSQL databases is a plus
• Well-versed with agile methodologies and clean coding practices
• Curiosity to understand how systems internally work, and hunger to continuously challenge the status quo of our tech stack
• Hands on knowledge of unit testing methodologies and frameworks
• Experience troubleshooting server performance - memory issues, GC tuning, resource leaks
• Experience working in technologies like Kafka, Postgres, Redis, kubernetes, or similar
• Experience navigating large code bases with the expertise to propose and implement refactorings as needed, coupled with a keen eye for code review