Lead Algorithm Engineer - Search & Recommendation

GoTo Financial; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

GoTo Financial is seeking a Lead Algorithm Engineer to join the GoTo Search & Recommendations Platform, working with teams across China and Singapore to shape the intelligence behind GoFood and GoPay, powering on-demand and financial use cases in Indonesia and beyond.

You will design and deploy advanced search, recommendation, and monetisation models, collaborating with business-facing data science teams to drive business impact and improve user experience through scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or higher in Computer Science, ML, NLP, CV, or related field.
• Strong programming skills in Python, C++, or Java.
• Hands-on experience with search/recommendation/ads systems and improvements to ranking or targeting models.
• Familiarity with LLMs and/or LLVMs and integrating them into search or recommendation pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement algorithms for search, recommendation, or advertising systems to drive discovery and conversion.
• Build advanced user behaviour models and query/assortment understanding models using LLMs/LLVMs to improve matching accuracy.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and data science teams to define problems, run experiments, and deploy solutions at scale.

Skills

Strong programming skills in Python, C

Experience designing and deploying 10

Ability to build user behavior models

Analytical and experimentation mindset

Education

Master’s degree or higher in Computer Science, ML, NLP, CV, or related field

Tools

Python

C++

Java

LLMs

LLVMs

Job description

• Lead Algorithm Engineer - Search & Recommendation

Lead Algorithm Engineer - Search & Recommendation

About the Role

As an algorithm member in the Search and Recommendations Platform team, you will work alongside top talent in China and Singapore to shape the intelligence behind GoFood and GoPay systems. You will design and deploy cutting-edge search, recommendations, and monetisation models that power on-demand and financial use cases across Indonesia. In your first six months, you will play a key role in launching foundational platform capabilities and collaborating with business-facing data science teams, to drive business impact and improve user experience.

What You Will Do

Design and implement algorithms for search, recommendation, or advertising systems to drive discovery and conversion across Goto products.

Build advanced user behaviour models and query/assortment understanding models using LLMs and LLVMs to improve matching accuracy between users, queries, and items across search and recommendation systems.

Collaborate with product, engineering, and business-facing data science teams to define problems, run experiments, and deploy solutions at scale.

What You Will Need

Master’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Machine Learning, NLP, CV, or a related field; strong programming skills in Python, C++, or Java.

Hands-on experience with search/ recommendation/ads systems, with proven improvements to ranking, retrieval, or ad targeting models.

Familiarity with LLMs and/or LLVMs, with experience integrating them into search or recommendation pipelines a strong plus.

Demonstrated ability to innovate with new algorithms or tools and drive measurable impact, especially making use of Large language Models (LLMs) and Large Language and Vision models (LLVMs) in search modeling or recommendation modeling

Strong product intuition and ability to reason from user behavior data and traffic patterns.

Good communication skills in English, both written and verbal.

Self-motivated, curious, and excited by the opportunity to build high-impact systems quickly.

About the Team

We’re a growing team of algorithm members and engineers spread across China and Singapore. We build the core search and recommendation platform capabilities to power use cases all across the GoTo universe. Everyone on the team shares a bias towards action and a passion for deploying models and strategies to real-world problems - where it’s improving ranking and relevance accuracy, scaling LLM-powered retrieval, or personalising customer journeys.

We believe algorithms and engine application are team sports. We work openly, challenge ideas with curiosity, and support one another to build systems that move business forward

About GoTo Group

GoTo is the largest digital ecosystem in Indonesia. GoTo's mission is to 'empower progress' by offering technology infrastructure and solutions that help everyone to access and thrive in the digital economy.

The GoTo ecosystem provides a wide range of services, including mobility, delivery, payments, financial services, and technology solutions for merchants. The ecosystem also provides e-commerce services through Tokopedia and banking services through its partnership with Bank Jago.

About Gojek

Gojek is Southeast Asia’s leading on-demand platform and pioneer of the multi-service ecosystem with over 2.5 million driver partners across the regions offering a wide range of services such as transportation, food delivery, logistics and more. With its mission to create impact at scale, Gojek is committed to resolving consumer problems and raising standards of living by connecting consumers to the best providers of goods and services in the market.

About GoTo Financial

GoTo Financial accelerates financial inclusion through its leading financial services and merchants solutions. Its consumer services include GoPay and GoPayLater and serve businesses of all sizes through Midtrans, Moka, GoBiz Plus, GoBiz, and Selly. With its trusted and inclusive ecosystem of products, GoTo Financial is open to new growth opportunities and aims to empower everyone to Make It Happen, Make It Together, Make It Last.