DevOps Engineer, Platforms

Ninja Van is a late-stage logtech startup that is disrupting a massive industry with innovation and cutting edge technology. Launched 2014 in Singapore, we have grown rapidly to become one of Southeast Asia's largest and fastest-growing express logistics companies. Since our inception, we’ve delivered to 100 million different customers across the region with added predictability, flexibility and convenience. Join us in our mission to connect shippers and shoppers across Southeast Asia to a world of new possibilities. 

More about us: 

- We process 250 million API requests and 3TB of data every day.

- We deliver more than 2 million parcels every day.

- 100% network coverage with 2600+ hubs and stations in 6 SEA markets (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and Philippines), reaching 500 million consumers.

- 2 Million active shippers in all e-commerce segments, from the largest marketplaces to the individual social commerce sellers.

- Raised more than US$500 million over five rounds.

We are looking for world-class talent to join our crack team of engineers, product managers and designers. We want people who are passionate about creating software that makes a difference to the world. We like people who are brimming with ideas and who take initiative rather than wait to be told what to do. We prize team-first mentality, personal responsibility and tenacity to solve hard problems and meet deadlines. As part of a small and lean team, you will have a very direct impact on the success of the company.

A mix between Software and Systems Engineering, Platform Engineers ensure the Ninja Van infrastructure runs smoothly and scales automatically and efficiently. Impacting more than 1.5 million parcels delivered daily, the team writes code and debugs challenging problems that keep availability, latency, performance, and capacity optimal. The Platforms Engineering team builds the foundations, from backend services, to frontend services, to infrastructure components, that keep Ninja Van systems running throughout the region.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain systems and platforms to ensure the Ninja Van infrastructure runs smoothly and scales automatically and efficiently
• Innovate, introduce and support new technologies that empowers engineers to gain higher team velocity
• Support and improve internal CI-CD pipelines
• Own the architecture and implementation of major initiatives, modules and entire products
• Work in cross functional teams to ship software on-quality and on-time
• Provide technical leadership and coaching to your team; conduct code and design review; drive code quality and process improvement initiatives
• Lead your team to write code that you are proud of, with extensibility, scalability and performance in mind

Requirements

• Minimum 3+yrs of related work experience
• Solid Computer Science fundamentals, excellent problem-solving skills. 
• Experienced with server-side or full-stack development with a proven track record of shipping successful software products.
• Deep experience in most of our tech stack or similar technologies.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field from a top university.
• Bonus: Have been a tech lead at least once or twice, with demonstrated strengths in software architecture.

Tech Stack

• Cloud Provider: GCP, AWS
• Orchestrator: Kubernetes, Istio
• Containerization: Docker, Containerd
• Data storage: MySQL, TiDB, Elasticsearch
• Cache: Hazelcast, Redis
• Real-time data pipeline: Apache Kafka, Maxwell
• Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Statusfy
• CI-CD: Ansible, Python, Bash
• Logging: FluentBit, Fluentd, Kibana
• Security: Vault
• Backend: Java, GoLang, Node.js
• Frontend: React

Tech Stack

Backend: Play (Java 8+), Golang, Node.js, Python, FastAPI

Frontend: AngularJS, ReactJS

Mobile: Android, Flutter, React Native

Cache: Hazelcast, Redis

Data storage: MySQL, TiDB, Elasticsearch, Delta Lake

Infrastructure monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana

Orchestrator: Kubernetes

Containerization: Docker, Containerd

Cloud Provider: GCP, AWS

Data pipelines: Apache Kafka, Spark Streaming, Maxwell/Debezium, PySpark, TiCDC

Workflow manager: Apache Airflow

Query engines: Apache Spark, Trino

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