About Carousell

Carousell is the leading classifieds group in Greater Southeast Asia on a mission to inspire the world to start buying and selling, and to make secondhand the first choice. Founded in August 2012 in Singapore, the group has a leading presence in eight markets under the brands Carousell, Mudah.my, Cho Tot, OneKyat, Ox Street and Refash, serving tens of millions of monthly active users. We have three technology development centers in Singapore, Taiwan, and India, as well as offices in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Myanmar, and Vietnam. Carousell is backed by leading investors, including Telenor Group, Rakuten Ventures, Naver, STIC Investments and Sequoia Capital India. As a team of passionate individuals working together to solve meaningful problems, there is so much more for you to discover in a career with Carousell. Our culture is made up of hiring, developing, and promoting people who embody our values of solving problems for our users; having a mission-first mindset; being relentlessly resourceful; caring deeply; and staying humble to constantly improve. Together as an Organisation, we make magic happen.

About the Role

Homescreen, Search Browsing, Location Filters and Listing Details Page are critical parts of various user journeys in Carousell, and we are building the next generation technology to power our business.

We are always improving our buyer platform that powers most of these flows and our challenge is that it needs to cater to tens of millions of users and billions of listings. Isn't it exciting? Become part of this growing team and have a phenomenal impact by helping users easily find what they are looking for and engage and retain users by making content browsing on Carousell a habit. You can breathe the innovation and excitement of a startup, working alongside some of the most talented engineers!

How can you participate? We're looking for a talented backend engineer willing to make a huge impact in a fast growing company, leader in SouthEast Asia. Come and join our Engineering Team based in TW! 

You will:

• Collaborate and innovate closely with colleagues from various teams and functions (Product, Search Engineering, SX Engineering, Vertical Engineering) to deliver the optimized, reliable system and experience across all buyer journeys for tens of millions of users every month.
• Analyse requirements, design and develop functionalities based on the product requirements.
• Build and design scalable and reliable microservices.
• Fully involved in the developing process from writing the technical design document to implementing the APIs to be utilized by client engineers.
• Work with the infrastructure team on deploying, scaling and performance optimization.
• Participate in code reviews to maintain a high-quality code culture.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot incident and site issues with modern performance monitoring tools.

You have:

• Experience in Go or similar languages, gRPC, RESTful APIs.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable and performant code making use of appropriate design principles and design patterns.
• Experience with database systems, with knowledge of SQL and NoSQL stores (e.g. Cassandra, PostgreSQL, etc.)
• Experience in technologies such as Redis, Kafka.
• Experience in building large, scalable distributed systems with a good understanding of microservices architecture, Kubernetes, containers and associated principles.
• Experience in optimizing the performance of backend systems and scaling infrastructure components.
• Experience in using observability, monitoring, alerting and logging tools such as Kibana, Grafana and Prometheus.
• Able to direct the overall design and code architecture for codebases that you and your team works on and constantly works to improve it. Able to write style guidelines for your team to follow.
• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or other equivalent degrees/experience.
• 3+ years experience in software development.

Good to have:

• Experience with scripting programming languages such as Python.
• Experience with TDD/BDD and agile methodologies.
• Experience with online classifieds marketplace.
• Knowledge of managing data consistency in distributed systems.
• Experience working with asynchronous systems.
• Embrace the new technology, and be active in the tech social community.

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