Backend Developer (Golang)

About Carousell Group 

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. Carousell is backed by leading investors including Telenor Group, Rakuten Ventures, Naver, STIC Investments, 500 Global and Peak XV Partners (formerly known as Sequoia Capital India).As a team of passionate individuals working together to solve meaningful problems, there is so much more for you to discover in a career with Carousell. Our culture is made up of hiring, developing, and promoting people who embody our values of HEART, which is an acronym for Humility, Empathy, Accountability, Relentlessly resourceful and Teamwork. Together as an organisation, we make magic happen.

What you will do:

Mudah.my is undergoing a major technical platform restructuring to use the latest and best technology the open source community has to offer. As a Backend Developer in our team, you will be:

• Developing containerized Go based application deployable in a Kubernetes system.
• Creating applications in a service oriented architecture as well as event driven microservice architecture.
• Working in an Agile-Scrum environment.
• Involved in the various phases of SDLC.
• Doing peer code review.
• Contributing to or creating new open source projects.

What it takes:

• Fun and happy personality with a great sense of humor.
• Passion in helping out others around you.
• Sensitivity to internal and external user needs and support issue.
• Common senses when it comes to developing features and not just follow what was instructed.
• Constantly reflect on tasks or processes done in order to improve and optimize them.
• Sharing on knowledge and industrial best practices as you have learn or experience it before.
• Ability to adapt and have flexibility in a high growth company.
• Intellectual curiosity and a hunger for continuous learning.
• Creativity in solving business challenges with the most optimized tech solution.
• Great communication skills.

• Degree in IT / Engineering related courses OR more than 2 year of working experience in programming related job(s) OR multiple programming related freelance projects portfolio OR a certified professional with multiple online programming related courses.
• Involvement in tech communities or events like Hackathons and software engineering related Clubs are highly added advantages.
• Existing working knowledge in Golang is a highly added advantage.
• Ability to learn new languages and technologies.
• Resourcefulness and troubleshooting aptitude.

• Familiar with GIT source control, working in command line (particularly Linux/Shell command) and familiar with SQL commands.
• Understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP).
• Understanding of Unit Test Concept.
• Ability to do self-learning and able to independently research for solutions to technical problems.

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