Lead Software Engineer - Engineering Platform

7 Months ago • 6-7 Years • Devops

Job Summary

Job Description

Gojek's Engineering Platform seeks a Lead Software Engineer to build and manage a highly scalable messaging platform powering diverse applications across its business lines. Responsibilities include building reliable, cost-effective infrastructure, ensuring technical excellence, enhancing code quality, collaborating with geographically dispersed teams, and sharing platform knowledge. The ideal candidate possesses extensive Golang/Java experience, deep understanding of distributed systems, and expertise in high-throughput system optimization. Experience with MQTT, AWS/GCP/Azure, Kubernetes, and CI/CD is a plus.
Must have:
  • 6-7+ years Golang/Java experience
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems
  • High-throughput system scaling & optimization
  • Experience with MQTT & cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Kubernetes & infrastructure automation tools expertise

Job Details

About the Role

At Engineering Platform, Gojek; we are looking for passionate engineers to join us in building a scalable messaging platform. The platform you are building is designed to power diverse applications across Gojek's many business lines. Your expertise will be crucial in delivering a reliable, cost-effective, and enjoyable experience for the developers using our platform. If you enjoy creating tools for fellow developers and are comfortable dealing with high scale and complex distributed systems - this role will be a great fit.


What You Will Do

    • Build and manage a highly scalable, reliable and cost-effective application infrastructure at Gojek, forming the backbone of our diverse distributed systems
    • Be a role model in technical excellence, helping Gojek engineers deliver top-quality applications without worrying about underlying infrastructure
    • Enhance code quality and product performance through continuous improvement and innovation
    • Collaborate and communicate effectively with teams across multiple geographies
    • Share your knowledge and expertise to strengthen teams knowledge of the platform so they can support themselves
    • Regularly refactor your work to maintain high-quality design and architecture following industry best practices

What You Will Need

    • Atleast 6-7+ years of hands on Golang/Java, building applications from scratch
    • Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, large scale systems, observability stack, prometheus fundamentals, opentelemetry, container technologies, internet routing and load balancing
    • Experience in handling, scaling and optimizing high throughput systems
    • Prior experience with messaging protocol such MQTT & prior experience with AWS, GCP, Azure etc. is a plus
    • Deep knowledge of Linux as a production environment, container technologies. e.g. Docker
    • Working Experience with cluster orchestrators and schedulers (Kubernetes)
    • Experience with infrastructure automation tools like chef, ansible, helm
    • Have worked on production distributed systems and have an understanding of microservices architecture, RESTful services, CI/CD
About the Team

We are the heart of Gojek, the group that owns, improves, and manages Gojek's engineering productivity across the board. We are responsible for the pillars of technology, science, and strategy across engineering, powering over 500+ microservices at Gojek. We leverage cutting edge technology in cloud computing managing real time high throughput systems with a wide range of programming stack. About Courier team, we are responsible for running, developing and maintaining MQTT brokers which is one the largest MQTT cluster deployments in SEA. You are directly responsible for on developing and maintaining open source mqtt broker, client libraries, tools and work with internal teams to integrate courier for various usecases across GOTO group.



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.

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