Lead Software Engineer

Carousell Group; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Carousell Group is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to drive the Core Marketplace with strong hands-on engineering and leadership across multiple teams. You will shape architecture, steer large-scale projects, and mentor engineers to build scalable, high-value features for merchants and buyers across our marketplace domains.

You will collaborate with product managers, designers and other engineers to deliver resilient systems, focusing on performance and reliability while guiding technical

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience and 2+ years in a leadership role
• Experience leading across multiple engineering teams
• Track record building scalable systems with microservices and highly available web-scale architectures
• Strong CS fundamentals and architecture/design skills
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or Java
• Deep knowledge of open source and cloud-native software
• Experience with databases (Postgres), caching (Redis) and search (Elasticsearch)

Responsibilities

• Lead large, complex cross-team technical projects
• Make architecture decisions and communicate trade-offs
• Contribute to high- and low-level design and write code
• Collaborate with product managers, designers and engineers across platforms
• Mentor engineers and promote best practices in the org
• Build deep product/domain knowledge to drive innovative features

Skills

Lead Engineer

Software Development

Microservices

Distributed Systems

Go

Python

Java

Cloud Native

Job description

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.

Job Description

About The Role

We are looking for a strong hands on engineer and technical leader passionate about building products users love backed by scalable systems and effective architecture. As a Lead Software Engineer you will be the technical leader for our Core Marketplace. The Core Marketplaceteam helps users like merchants and power sellers achieve additional success in our Marketplace with visibility products, as well as marketing, merchandising and operations tools. The team creates deep, delightful buyer and seller experiences for specialized high value categories across Carousell. Together these products are responsible for the majority of Carousell’s revenue.

You will:

Lead large, complex, cross-team technical projects

Think deeply about technology and architecture choices in your domains, communicate trade-offs, and often take the decisions

Contribute directly to high and low level design and write code. Serve as a role model and inspiration to other engineers for how to build software

Work closely with product managers, designers and engineers across multiple platforms and domains

Collaborate with other principal and senior engineers in the organization on org wide platform, process and technology choices. Initiate and lead technical projects and changes to existing processes, that will improve the quality of our codebase and systems, reduce technical debt and improve our developer productivity.

Mentor engineers in the organization, imparting technical knowledge, industry best practices and leadership skills.

Build deep product and business domain knowledge in paying users and vertical domains, and use it to build innovative features for our users.

Qualifications

You have:

8+ years experience in software development, and 2+ years of experience working in product development as a Lead Engineer or equivalent technical leadership role

Experience as a technical lead across multiple engineering teams

Track record of building scalable systems. Experience with microservices and exposure to highly available web scale systems is a must

Strong CS foundation and practical experience with software development, architecture and design. Excellent knowledge of distributed system concepts, problems and solution patterns

Knowledge of modern tech stacks. Strong, hands on programming skills: Go, Python, or Java

Deep knowledge of open source and cloud native software

Strong knowledge of storage technologies, including databases (Postgres), key value stores (Cassandra etc), caching systems (Redis) and search engines (Elasticsearch)

User obsession and empathy

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

High integrity and ability to positively collaborate with others

Strong communication and written skills.

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