Senior Software Engineer

This role will require you to develop scalable and reliable web services and solutions within the routing domain. Be part of a highly-productive and motivated engineering team on its journey to deliver the best products to GoJek users and internal customers. This role provides an opportunity to work on challenging real-world geospatial problems in one of the most prominent startups in South-East Asia.

What will you do

1. Be responsible for the end-to-end development and delivery of small to medium size features and services to power core Gojek businesses.
2. Support production and integration environments with your colleagues and participate in incident resolution.
3. Collaborate closely with the Cartography Data Science team to turn their models and data into practical solutions.
4. Work with the Map Ops team to develop features that help curation and fine-tuning of geospatial data.
5. Actively support the tracking and reporting execution metrics within your team.

What you will need

1. At least 4+ years of experience in software development. Hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing, troubleshooting, deploying, and maintaining web applications in any programming language, preferably with a solid backend development background.
2. Knowledge of SQL and experience working with relational databases.
3. Knowledge and experience with object-oriented programming.
4. Proficiency with unit testing, preferably with TDD. To be a generalist with a growth mindset.
5. Ability to absorb the best engineering practices and take pride in your work.
6. Experience developing scalable REST + JSON APIs and web front ends.
7. Knowledge of different databases (SQL / NoSQL) and their tradeoffs. We primarily use Redis, PostgreSQL + PostGIS, and ElasticSearch; familiarity with any is a plus.

About the Team

At the heart of Gojek’s businesses, we move things around. Whether that’s people, food, packages, fresh groceries, etc. Moving things around boils down to understanding the best route, traffic, and locations. The Cartography team is an internal team that surfaces mapping technologies needed by all internal product teams within Gojek. Cartography is a small but critical team that significantly impacts the lives of our drivers and users.