Software Engineer - Backend Platform

Company Description

About Carousell Group 

Carousell Group is the leading multi-category platform for secondhand in Greater Southeast Asia on a mission to make secondhand the first choice. Founded in August 2012 in Singapore, the Group has a leading presence in seven markets under the brands Carousell, Carousell Media Group, Cho Tot, Laku6, Mudah.my, Lux Lexicon, OneShift, REFASH and Revo Financial, serving tens of millions of monthly active users. Carousell is backed by leading investors including Telenor Group, Rakuten Ventures, Naver, STIC Investments, 500 Global and Peak XV Partners (formerly known as Sequoia Capital India). Visit here for more information.

At Carousell Platform Engineering, one of the Foundational Technology teams, is responsible for building solutions, frameworks and tools aimed at improving engineering productivity, performance and security of our systems. The challenges range from building scalable shared services used across Product Engineering teams, touching the majority of our user base, to solving complex reliability, scaling or performance issues.

Job Description

You will : 

• Design, build and maintain core backend platform which includes microservice framework, libraries, asynchronous inter-service communication, media handling, etc. 
• Proactively work with engineering teams, identify gaps and work with your to address it.
• Effectively communicate these with stakeholders and propose/implement solutions.
• Ensure high availability and application security of services
• Set high standards of engineering design and code quality 

Qualifications

You will have demonstrated:

Attitudes and Behaviours

• Customer obsession and empathy.
• Willingness to learn new technologies and build expertise as needed
• Focus on impact and results. You work on the right things and get them done.
• Drive and resourcefulness to persevere and overcome obstacles achieving challenging goals.
• Track record of successfully solving problems with quality(+speed). 
• High integrity and ability to positively collaborate with others

Functional Skills

• At Least 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with relevant experience in work in platform or product engineering. 
• Experience working with microservice architecture and exposure to consumer scale systems
• Strong knowledge of modern technologies and hands on coding experience with either Go, C++ or Java.
• Experience working in Cloud environment and strong knowledge of engineering fundamentals
• Ability to speak and write succinctly and clearly

Additional Information

Good to have

• Exposure working with Kubernetes and Service Mesh architecture
• Experience working with gRPC and protobuf 
• Experience working with datastores (cassandra, postgresql, Elasticsearch), Message Queuing (Kafka) and Backstage

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