Lead Software Engineer (Backend) - DPI

At GoToFinancial, engineering is the heartbeat of our innovation, turning bold ideas into real-world solutions that make a difference for our users. As a Backend Engineer on the DS Engineering team, you’ll play a key role in both enhancing the developer experience for our data scientists and driving the creation of groundbreaking AI products. You’ll be hands-on in developing, operating, and maintaining our data science platform, with a focus on scalability and adaptability. Your work will tackle complex challenges and directly impact the performance of our data science models across the company. You'll be instrumental in guiding data-driven decisions that fuel business growth and manage risks. Join us on the cutting edge of AI and be part of a historic journey! We joined forces with top data scientists and engineers to launch Indonesia's first AI-powered fintech voice assistant, "DIRA," in Bahasa Indonesia. Now, we're pushing the envelope with innovative projects that will define the future of GoTo's AI strategy. This is your chance to take the front seat in our AI rocketship. Don’t let this opportunity slip by!

• Translate our product’s goals into iterative MVPs, evaluate, and then refactor into a scalable and extensible design.
• Pair with team members on functional and nonfunctional requirements and spread design philosophy, goals and improvements to code quality across the team.
• Design and develop highly scalable, highly available, reliable, secure and fault-tolerant systems with minimal guidance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Data Science, Product, DevOps, UX, Data Engineering, QA, etc) on planning and execution.
• Manage automated build/test/deployment environments.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development.
• Deploy, monitor, maintain, and fix products currently in production.

• Proven experience in delivering solutions for complex technical challenges with a strong commitment to timely and effective delivery.
• At least 8+ years of relevant software development experience in designing, developing, testing, and deploying applications for large-scale applications.
• Deep understanding of Microservices (HTTP & GRPC), and programming languages like Golang, Java (and a willingness to learn others).
• Experience with Kafka, Postgresql, Kubernetes is expected (and a willingness to learn others).
• Experience with DevOps: Gitlab CI, Terraform.
• Proficiency in OOP, SQL, and Design Patterns; experience with functional programming is a plus.
• Strong data modeling experience in Relational and NoSQL databases.
• Ability to implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery; well-versed with Agile methodologies, TDD and Test Engineering and Automation.
• Ability to design and implement low-latency RESTful/GRPC services.

Our GoPay team consists of 200+ zealous folk based in Jakarta and Bangalore. As Nasi Goreng is to the people of Indonesia, we are to Gojek: providing the nourishment to sustain our business from the inside out. We run and oversee one of Southeast Asia's largest e-money wallet platforms and Indonesia's leading digital payments provider.

Our service is now accepted by over 300,000 online and offline merchants in Indonesia alone, with our ecosystem processing US$3.6 billion of annualized Gross Transaction Value. But, the growth of Payments does not stop here. We are hungry for more. We intend to become the largest payment and financial services group in Southeast Asia. It's our job to ensure that this number grows, and more importantly, that anyone utilizing our platform is given the most seamless payment experience possible. How does one achieve this, you may ask? By collaborating diligently with our users to understand the daily obstacles they face in the payment arena, and then crafting our products and services to aid these issues.

As a team, we’re concerned not only with the growth of the company but each other’s personal and professional growth, too. Along with a common drive to jump over technical barriers and provide sustainable solutions, our team bonds over our shared love for tea, movies, and TV shows.