Senior Elasticsearch Backend Engineer

MateCareer; Jakarta Pusat; On-site; IDR 350,000,000 - 600,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Astro, Indonesia's quick commerce leader, seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to lead scalable backend enhancements across cross-platform stacks. You will collaborate with Product and Engineering to deliver features, optimize search capabilities, and ensure reliable RPC and messaging communications.

You will mentor engineers, translate requirements into actionable tasks, oversee the full lifecycle from development to production, and explore AI-powered approaches to boost efficiency.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building scalable backend services.
• Strong understanding of RPC and messaging systems.
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders and product managers to define goals and priorities.
• Mentor and develop engineers, perform code reviews, and enforce best practices.
• Translate product requirements into clear technical tasks for the team.
• Break down engineering problems into components and estimate efforts.
• Oversee backend feature delivery with product teams for timely, quality implementation.
• Own full product lifecycle from development to production deployment and improvements.
• Explore AI tools to improve efficiency in daily engineering workflows.

Skills

Backend development

RPC & messaging

Mentoring

Job description

About Astro

ASTRO is Indonesia's quick commerce company that delivers groceries and essentials to your door within 15 minutes. Founded in 2021 by a group of seasoned e-commerce executives and is backed trusted international investors, it is our mission to make people's lives simpler and easier by saving them time, energy, and money.

Just like real Astronauts that take off into outer space, Astro embodies the values of being fast, bold, adventurous, and technologically advanced.

Interested in working for a company that pushes the boundaries and strives to be the best?

About this Position

This role focuses on leading a scalable backend services improvement to support our cross platform. You will collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to lead the delivery of new features, optimize search fitur and system performance, and maintain reliable service communication through RPC and messaging systems. You will also research engineering best practices to ensure system stability and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with stakeholders and product managers to define project goals and priorities.
• Mentoring and developing the engineers, performing code reviews, and enforcing best practices.
• Translate product requirements into clear technical solutions and actionable development tasks for your team.
• Break down complex engineering problems into manageable components and estimate development efforts accurately.
• Oversee backend features delivery in collaboration with the Product team, ensuring timely and high-quality implementation.
• Take ownership of the full product lifecycle, including development, testing, deployment to production, and continuous improvements or fixes.
• Explore and leverage AI tools or technologies to improve development efficiency and support practical implementation in daily engineering workflows.