Company Description
About Carousell Group
Carousell Group is the leading multi-category platform for secondhand in Greater Southeast Asia on a mission to make secondhand the first choice. Founded in August 2012 in Singapore, the Group has a leading presence in seven markets under the brands Carousell, Carousell Media Group, Cho Tot, Laku6, LuxLexicon, Mudah.my, OneShift, REFASH and Revo Financial, serving tens of millions of monthly active users. Carousell is backed by leading investors including Telenor Group, Rakuten Ventures, Naver, STIC Investments, 500 Global and Peak XV Partners (formerly known as 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 HEART, which is an acronym for Humility, Empathy, Accountability, Relentlessly resourceful and Teamwork. Together as an organisation, we make magic happen.
Job Description
You will :
- Design, build and maintain core backend platform which includes microservice framework, libraries, asynchronous inter-service communication, media handling, etc.
- Proactively work with engineering teams, identify gaps and work with your to address it.
- Effectively communicate these with stakeholders and propose/implement solutions.
- Ensure high availability and application security of services
- Set high standards of engineering design and code quality
- Utilize AI agents to automate repetitive coding tasks and generate comprehensive test suites, accelerating development cycles.
- Employ AI-powered tools for code analysis and vulnerability detection to proactively strengthen system security.
- Integrate AI-driven insights into performance monitoring to identify and address potential bottlenecks efficiently.
- Collaborate with AI teams to explore and implement novel security solutions powered by machine learning.
Qualifications
You will have demonstrated:
Attitudes and Behaviours
- Customer obsession and empathy.
- Willingness to learn new technologies and build expertise as needed
- Focus on impact and results. You work on the right things and get them done.
- Drive and resourcefulness to persevere and overcome obstacles achieving challenging goals.
- Track record of successfully solving problems with quality(+speed).
- High integrity and ability to positively collaborate with others
Functional Skills
- At Least 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with relevant experience in work in platform or product engineering.
- Experience working with microservice architecture and exposure to consumer scale systems
- Strong knowledge of modern technologies and hands on coding experience with either Go, C++ or Java.
- Experience working in Cloud environment and strong knowledge of engineering fundamentals
- Ability to speak and write succinctly and clearly
Additional Information
Good to have
- Exposure working with Kubernetes and Service Mesh architecture
- Experience working with gRPC and protobuf
- Experience working with datastores (cassandra, postgresql, Elasticsearch), Message Queuing (Kafka) and Backstage
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