Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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Job Summary


Salary
S$9,967 - S$16,133 / Monthly EST

Job Type
Permanent

Seniority
Senior

Years of Experience
Information not provided

Tech Stacks
Rest API TDD Lucene Solr kafka Elasticsearch Flask PostgreSQL Redis Cassandra Go Django Python

Job Description

Meet the team that handcrafts various parts of the mobile applications, website and backend systems in order to deliver the best user experience. Here at Carousell, our engineering team works on a myriad of problem domains. You get to work on building the simplest buying and selling experience on our mobile applications, dive deep into our database systems that powers the business, or even work on tools to empower the rest of the teams in Carousell.

Ensuring that the user experience stays simple is complicated - and we take pride in our work to keep things that way.

We are now looking for Backend Engineers to join our Engineering Team based in SG.

You Will

  • Design and build scalable APIs for the Carousell marketplace platform.
  • Write clean, testable code with unit tests.
  • Work with the infrastructure team on deploying, scaling and performance optimization.
  • Participate in code reviews to maintain a high-quality code culture.
You Have

  • User obsession and empathy.
  • Drive and resourcefulness to persevere and overcome obstacles achieving challenging goals.
  • Focus on impact and results. You work on the right things and get them done.
  • High integrity and ability to positively collaborate with others
  • Experience in either Go, Python, Django/Flask, RESTful APIs
  • Ability to write clean, maintainable and performant code making use of appropriate design principles and patterns.
  • Excellent knowledge of RDBMS such as PostgreSQL and technologies such as Redis, Cassandra, Kafka, Lucene / Elasticsearch / Solr.
  • Strong experience in optimizing the performance of backend systems and scaling infrastructure components.
  • Experience in building large, scalable distributed systems with good understanding of microservices architecture and associated principles.
  • Experience with TDD/BDD and agile methodologies
  • Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or other equivalent degrees/experience
Good To Have

  • Experience with online classifieds marketplace.
  • Knowledge of managing data consistency in distributed systems.
  • Experience working with asynchronous systems.

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