Head of Engineering - Transport

8 Months ago • 12 Years +

Job Details

We are looking for a Head of Engineering for the Transport team.
As part of this role you will be required to keep and raise the bar of engineering excellence, setting up growth paths and structure for the team, establishing best practices for the team to function efficiently.
You will be responsible for managing the overall engineering charter for the Transport business vertical. You would be collaborating with stakeholders across several functions including engineering, product and business functions to define and enable the next phase of evolution of the product.
You should be someone who is passionate about technology, willing to unlearn and learn, has hands-on experience, and forthcoming to mentor and guide the team towards technical know-hows and help in ideating with the team to build simple yet elegant solutions for different business needs.
Your ownership, drive and passion would help provide for a world class user experience and stability of our products.

Responsibilities

    • Gojek is looking for an experienced technologist with a passion & understanding of technology to lead its transportation product. Transport is one of the flagship products in GOJEK superapp. It is launched in Indonesia, Singapore and Vietnam.

    • As Head of Engineering of Transport, you will partner with GOJEK VP, Senior VP of technology, Transport Head of Business, Group Product Manager and other business stakeholders in the company to formulate a business strategy for Transport. You will work closely with PMs and Tech Leads in Transport to realize this strategy to make GOJEK a dominant player in markets.

    • Strategic thinking and strong business acumen along with deep technical expertise are essential in this role. We expect you to be well-versed in current technological trends and familiar with a variety of business concepts. If you are also an excellent communicator and public speaker, we’d like to meet you.

    • What you will do

    • Design and develop highly scalable, highly available, reliable, secure and fault tolerant systems with minimal guidance for one of the world's fastest growing company in the transportation industry
    • Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design
    • Setup growth paths for the team and engage them in processes and practices that shall help scale engineering
    • Collaborate with cross functional teams and stakeholders (Business, Product, Data, UX, Platform, Devops etc.) to unlock the next phase of business growth.
    • Provide technology leadership to the team and foster engineering excellence.
    • Research new technologies and tools that enable building simplistic architecture for the next generation of Gojek services

Experience and Skills

    • Should have at least 12 years of hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying applications at scale.
    • Proficient in System Design, Design patterns, database structure, Linux/Unix. Experience with functional programming and infrastructure management is a plus.
    • Well versed with Agile methodologies, TDD and Test Engineering and Automation.
    • Experience as people manager and passionate towards building and growing a high functioning team. 
    • 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 pick up new technologies and independently navigate obstacles and find innovative solutions.
    • Ability to seamlessly switch focus between tasks and enthusiasm for seeking out learning opportunities.
    • Ability to build strong relationships within and beyond the team, enhancing knowledge expansion and problem-solving efforts, while also nurturing the same through the exchange of constructive feedback.
Our Transport PDG team is part of GoJek GoTo family that includes engineers, product managers, designers etc spread out across Bangalore, Gurgaon, Jakarta and Singapore. We run Southeast Asia’s leading ride-hailing business and oversee all things related to our riders and driver-partner's needs. We touch millions of lives on a daily basis through our ride-hailing experience and continuously work towards trying to improve the experience for our customers and driver partners. It’s our job to ensure that our Transport services run seamlessly from inside out.
We, the Transporters, know how to work hard and play hard. When we aren’t busy working, you’d probably find us playing games or catching up with each other and discussing varied topics. We work as a team to get our job done well, and genuinely enjoy each other's company.

About GoTo Group
GoTo Group is the largest digital ecosystem in Indonesia with its mission to “Empower Progress’ by offering technological infrastructure and solutions for everyone to access and thrive in the digital economy. The GoTo ecosystem consists of on-demand transportation services, food and grocery delivery, logistics and fulfillment, as well as financial and payment services through the Gojek and GoTo Financial platforms.It is the first platform in Southeast Asia that hosts these crucial cases in a single ecosystem, capturing the majority of Indonesia’s vast consumer household.

About Gojek 
Gojek is Southeast Asia’s leading on-demand platform and pioneer of the multi-service ecosystem with over 2.5 million driver partners across the regions offering a wide range of services such as transportation, food delivery, logistics and more. With its mission to create impact at scale, Gojek is committed to resolving consumer problems and raising standards of living by connecting consumers to the best providers of goods and services in the market.

About GoTo Financial
GoTo Financial accelerates financial inclusion through its leading financial services and merchants solutions. Its consumer services include GoPay and GoPayLater and serve businesses of all sizes through Midtrans, Moka, GoBiz Plus, GoBiz, and Selly. With its trusted and inclusive ecosystem of products, GoTo Financial is open to new growth opportunities and aims to empower everyone to Make It Happen, Make It Together, Make It Last.

GoTo and its business units, including Gojek and GoToFinancial ("GoTo") only post job opportunities on our official channels on our respective company websites and on LinkedIn. GoTo is not liable for any job postings or job offers that did not originate from us. You should conduct your own due diligence to prevent being victims of any fake job scams, if they did not originate from GoTo's official recruitment channels.

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About The Company

GoTo is the largest technology group in Indonesia, combining on-demand and financial services through the Gojek and GoTo Financial brands. It is the first platform in Southeast Asia to host these two essential use cases in one ecosystem, capturing a majority of Indonesian consumer household expenditure.


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