Lead Software Engineer - Transport
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Summary
Lead Software Engineer needed for GoTo's Transport team in Bengaluru. Responsibilities include designing, developing, and deploying Android applications, leading design and development efforts, optimizing app performance, collaborating with product management and cross-functional teams, and fostering engineering excellence. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of Android development experience, proficiency in Kotlin, Architectural Components, and TDD, and a strong understanding of mobile performance tuning. They should be passionate about maintaining a clean and maintainable codebase and possess excellent problem-solving skills.
Must have:
- 6+ years Android development experience
- Proficiency in Kotlin, Architectural Components
- Understanding of TDD, Dependency Injection
- Mobile performance tuning expertise
- Strong problem-solving skills
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About the Role :
We are looking for Lead software engineers for the Transport team, who will be responsible to raise the bar for engineering excellence and set up practices that would enable the next evolution of the products.
In this role, your primary focus will be to technically lead design, develop and deploy android applications for some of the most critical and technically complex offerings that Gojek and should be passionate about maintaining a clean and maintainable codebase. Your ownership, drive and passion would help provide for a world class user experience and stability of our Android products.
What You Will Do
- Design, build and improve the mobile experiences with minimal guidance for one of the world's fastest growing companies in travel
- Understand, design and build to optimize in terms of resources used on the devices as well as simplify to meet the challenges of our always on-the-go users
- Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design
- Partner with the product management team to define and execute the feature roadmap.Be responsible for defining and executing for complex, long term initiatives and help the team objectively lay out the roadmap and execute against smaller milestones
- Pair with team members on functional and nonfunctional requirements and spread design philosophy, goals and improve the code quality across the team
- Coordinate with cross functional teams (Backend, UX, QA etc.) on planning and execution
- Proactively manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables, risks, changes and dependencies
- Provide technology leadership to the team and foster engineering excellence. Be the flag bearer for setting long term execution strategies and bring about the culture of operational excellence in the team
What You Will Need
- At least 6 years of experience in Android application development and product delivery
- Predictability and balance of product delivery speed and quality
- In depth knowledge of Android Apps architecture and implementation including proficiency in Kotlin, Architectural Components, Git, and Gradle
- Understanding of TDD, Dependency Injection principles, Mobile Performance Tuning (Load time, Crash/ANR/Memory Leak tracking, Network optimisations)
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills and a proven track record of being able to respond effectively to customer situations
- A command over the technology ecosystem and ability to learn and ramp up on the latest trends
- A track record and passion for improving the code structure and architecture to improve testability and maintainability
- Ability to write model code for functional and non-functional requirements and help improve the code quality standard across the team
About the Team :
Our Transport team is a big family of 100+ members made up of engineers and product managers 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.
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.
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.
GoTo’s mission is to “Empower Progress” by offering an unparalleled selection of goods and services through a comprehensive merchant and partner network and promoting financial inclusion through its leading payments and financial services business.
