Sr. Software Engineer (Backend) - Transport

About the Role

Roll up your sleeves and climb on board if you’re ready to be our next Software Engineer. In this role, you will be an integral player for Backend Engineering at Gojek - designing and developing highly scalable, reliable, maintainable and fault tolerant systems which powers one of South-East Asia’s biggest ride hailing and mobility experiences . As a member of the core Transport Booking experience team you will be working with other peers to power the core booking experience of transport orders on Gojek.

What You Will Do

• Work cross-functionally with product, design, backend and other teams across regions and independently ship world-class products and features with minimal guidance
• Design and develop highly scalable, available, reliable, secure and fault-tolerant systems with minimal guidance for one of the world’s fastest-growing companies in travel
• Write code that is clear, concise, performant, tested and easily understood by others
• Actively mentor SE/ASEs in the team
• Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design
• Communicate, collaborate and work effectively across cross-functional teams in a global environment
• Build and manage automated build/test/deployment environments
• Improve engineering standards, tooling and processes

What You Will Need

• At least 4 years of hands-on experience in developing, testing and deploying large scale applications
• Have expertise in at least one of Go or Java
• In-depth knowledge of unit testing methodologies and frameworks
• Ability to understand and implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
• Well versed with Agile methodologies, Test Engineering and Automation
• Proficient in troubleshooting server performance - memory issues, GC tuning, resource leaks etc
• Excellent understanding of interactive application development paradigm, memory management, performance/resource optimisations, database interactions, network programming, concurrency and multithreading, fault tolerance, monitoring, security and operability of systems
• Ability to estimate and execute releases with a good degree of predictability

About the Team

Our Transport team is a big family of 100+ members made up of engineers, product managers, business strategy planners spread out across Jakarta, Bangalore, Singapore, and Vietnam. We run Southeast Asia’s leading and fastest-growing ride-hailing business and oversee all things related to our riders and driver-partners' needs in daily transport and work daily to create solutions to these issues. It’s our job to ensure that our Transport services run seamlessly from the inside out.

Transport Booking-experience is a vertical in Gojek that helps customers to order different modes of transport online from their choice of available transport products like (two-wheeler, car, premium, xl etc) using the Gojek customer app. On a day to day basis teams are involved in brainstorming and developing solutions for different optimisations that bring efficiency in the ecosystem making the Transport Ordering journey smooth for our customers. You will be working on the next set of features that are set to change or enhance the day-to-day experience of customers booking a ride from A to B. We, the Transporters, know how to work hard and play hard. When we aren’t busy working, you’d probably find us playing online games like Among Us and Sketchful, or catching up with each other on our virtual hangouts. We work as a team to get our job done well, and genuinely enjoy each other's company.