Engineering Manager - Data Platform

Key Skills

Agile methodologies, Apache Beam, Apache Flink, Data Modeling, Data Warehousing, GoLang, Java Programming, Python Programming, RDBMS, Software Development, Spark Core

Job Description

About the Role

As Gojek is undergoing exponential growth, our data has followed the same growth curve. Thus, as an integral member of the Data Platform team, you'll be at the epicenter of one of Southeast Asia's most coveted companies, and get to witness and solve the challenges that come with rapid scaling.

You will be the part of the Data Platform Frontend team responsible for working on 3 products 1. The next-gen self-serve console portal, our experimentation platform Litmus and our campaign manager Mercury. Since most of Gojek internally relies on it, hence the responsibility increases to provide high-quality products.

What You Will Do

• Assess and manage team performance through staff meetings, one on ones, and quarterly assessments
• Mentor your engineers to ensure their growth and engagement in the team, evaluate team workload and develop a staffing plan, and assign projects and balance workload to ensure continuous delivery and higher predictability
• Serve as primary interface to staffing team, creating job descriptions, identifying sources for candidates, conducting interviews and shepherding candidates through the process
• Lead a team of Software Engineers focused on improving analyst velocity and impact across Gojek’s diverse project areas and platforms
• Become a partner to Product Managers on deciding vision, strategy and OKRs
• Provide technical expertise throughout the product life cycle including design, implementation, and delivery of scalable build/test/release infrastructure

What You Will Need

• Having at least 8 years of relevant software development experience preferably with experience in data products, also at least 2 years of leading and monitoring an engineering team to success
• Still hands-on and enjoys writing code every day preferably with experience in Java, Golang, and/or Python
• Ability to understand and implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
• Well versed with Agile methodologies, TDD and Test Engineering, and Automation
• Ability to plan, prioritize, estimate and execute releases with a good degree of predictability
• Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency risks

Bonus Points if

• Understanding in data modeling for data warehouse, relational database, and non-relational database
• Understanding in batch and stream data pipeline; Beam, Flink, Spark

About the Team

We are a team of developers, designers and product managers with diverse academic, professional and personal backgrounds but united by the passion to enrich Data Platform & Analytics at Gojek through sound methods and ease of use. Working alongside the Product Managers, BI Analytics and Product Engineers, we are predominantly concerned with utilizing and translating data into critical information that can be used to make sound business decisions. 

This includes gathering any new data points, and working closely with various business teams to capture, connect, and convert any data changes into useful knowledge in guiding our next steps to create a meaningful business impact.

Combating remote work has brought us even closer, with frequent catch-ups over tea and sharing ways we have been keeping ourselves sane. Along with our desire to utilize smart technology and innovative engineering strategies to make people’s lives easier, our team also bonds over our shared love for reading, gaming, and drinking lots of coffee. We work hard and play hard, and believe it or not, we actually enjoy each other’s company!

About GoTo Group

GoTo Group is the largest digital ecosystem in Indonesia with its mission to “Empower Progress’ by offering technological infrastructure and solutions for everyone to access and thrive in the digital economy. The GoTo ecosystem consists of on-demand transportation services, e-commerce, food and grocery delivery, logistics and fulfillment, as well as financial and payment services through the Gojek, Tokopedia and GoTo Financial platforms.It is the first platform in Southeast Asia that hosts these crucial cases in a single ecosystem, capturing the majority of Indonesia’s vast consumer household.

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.

About Tokopedia

Tokopedia is an Indonesian technology company with a mission to democratize commerce through technology. It has been a driving force behind Indonesia's digital development since its foundation in 2009, with more than 99% of districts and empowered around 12 million merchants listed nationwide. With Nakama ranging all across Indonesia, Tokopedia aims to simplify the lives of many to #FindYourPurpose together.