Lead Software Engineer
Carousell Group3 hours ago
Remote, India or Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead large, complex, cross-team technical projects for the Core Marketplace.
- Drive architecture and technology decisions, communicate trade-offs, and contribute to high- and low-level design and coding.
- Build scalable, highly available systems and improve code quality, technical debt, processes, and developer productivity.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers across platforms and domains.
- Mentor engineers and promote technical knowledge, best practices, and leadership skills.
- Develop deep product and business knowledge to create innovative marketplace features.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software development.
- 2+ years of experience in product development as a Lead Engineer or equivalent technical leadership role.
- Experience serving as a technical lead across multiple engineering teams.
- A track record of building scalable systems and experience with microservices and highly available web-scale systems.
- Strong computer science foundation and practical experience with software development, architecture, and design.
- Deep knowledge of distributed systems concepts, problems, and solution patterns.
- Strong hands-on programming skills in Go, Python, or Java.
- Deep knowledge of open-source and cloud-native software.
- Strong knowledge of storage technologies, including Postgres, Cassandra, Redis, and Elasticsearch.
- Strong communication, collaboration, user empathy, integrity, drive, and resourcefulness.
Tech Stack
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About Carousell Group
Carousell Group runs a multi-category secondhand marketplace for consumers, delivered via mobile apps and web, across Greater Southeast Asia. It operates brands including Carousell, Mudah.my, Cho Tot, REFASH, Laku6, and others, and monetizes through transaction fees, advertising (Carousell Media Group), and recommerce/financing services. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Singapore, the company serves tens of millions of users across seven markets.