ODS Senior Software Engineer - Marketplace

About the Role

As a senior software engineer, you'll work closely with the company's product, operations, and engineering teams. We value curiosity to explore deeper into the systems, libraries, and tools and look for scalable solutions. Familiarity with Event Driven Architecture would be desired.

You would be tasked with platformization of the Mobility Marketplace as a first‑class problem, which requires understanding end‑to‑end use‑cases and challenging the status quo at all times by reviewing current engineering techniques and tools and scouting for opportunities and fundamental engineering changes that would bring agility, reliability to enable more business opportunities.

• Takes responsibility for the entire lifecycle of their stories: development, test, production, and subsequent fixes and improvements
• Reaches out to stakeholders to clarify the requirements for the story they are working on
• Improves the development experience at Gojek by enhancing development tools, test coverage, and/or code structure
• Manages timely delivery for own tasks consistently and actively supports their team in the tracking and reporting of execution metrics both through automation as well as disciplined adherence to processes and best practices
• Has an in‑depth understanding of at least one programming language and framework
• Performs code reviews that follow the standards and practices of the engineering handbook and that are recognized by their team as helpful
• Collaborates with other engineers, designers and QAs to flesh out implementation details based on the established pattern in the stream

• 4-5 years of relevant experience. Hands‑on in either Golang or Java
• The ability to go into depth and breadth across tech stack used in the product vis‑a‑vis backend services, machine learning, data engineering, web development, data and analytics, infrastructure
• Has worked on large‑scale event‑driven microservices architecture with an active use of Kafka and can architect solutions based on this pattern
• Is familiar with basic programming principles such as SOLID and TDD
• Has intermediate experience with Linux 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

We are a team of 4 engineers, focusing on Platform concerns, under the Mobility Marketplace group. Our prime objectives include platformization, and reliability concerns of systems within the marketplace and aim to move towards a composable architecture where new features could be shipped for experimentation by business in a matter of days. We act as a central binding agent for Pricing, Supply, and Matchmaking teams and make sure that the overall architecture and infrastructure is flexible, easily extensible, and scalable.