Senior Software Engineer - Datajet

Global Fashion Group is the leading fashion and lifestyle retail destination in LATAM, CIS, SEA and ANZ. We connect over 10,000 global, local and own brands to a market of more than one billion consumers through four established ecommerce platforms: dafiti, lamoda, ZALORA and THE ICONIC. Through an inspiring and seamless customer experience enabled by our own technology ecosystem and operational infrastructure, we are dedicated to being the #1 fashion and lifestyle destination in our markets. With 17 offices and 9 fulfilment centres across four continents, GFG proudly employs a dynamic and diverse team with deep local knowledge and expertise. In the twelve months to 31 March 2021, GFG delivered 44.5million orders to 16.7 million Active Customers.

ABOUT THE FUNCTION

Our team are set up in Berlin, Singapore and Vietnam and we continuously develop our products using agile development practices. We have an open company culture with over 20 different nationalities operating in a booming market working on interesting projects using modern tech-stack, efficient and lean workflows. 

The Datajet team is working on a search recommendation engine that is used by GFG's regions and we are looking to roll it out to the 17 countries where we operate. As part of the team in this role as Senior Golang Engineer, you will support this goal by ensuring a relevant catalog of millions of products is available to over 50 million users across 12 countries. 

Our platform delivers the core product to power search and recommendations to our brands in growth markets, and our team's goal is to make every product in our extensive assortment discoverable.

ABOUT THE ROLE 

• You will be responsible for helping our regions to find the best match between their customer needs and products.
• You will build and maintain scalable Golang-centric applications by contributing to our codebase on a daily basis.
• You will cover code by tests.
• You will be responsible for building large concurrent applications.
• You will be able to diagnose problems at any level (Client, HTTP/Network, Server, Database, OS).

WHAT WILL YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

• You will convey solid experience in developing high performant Golang web-based applications.
• You have experience working with Elasticsearch (how to rank results, make queries, mapping, etc.).
• You have experience in building microservices, ideally deployed in Docker containers on Kubernetes.
• You bring some experience with RDBMS & NoSQL datastores.
• You have designed, developed and ran large scale production environments closely with DevOps/SRE.
• You are a continuous learner and like to find new ways to do things.
• Good communication skills, spoken and written English.
• A hands-on, can-do attitude.

Nice to have

• AWS / K8s / Kafka / Postgresql experience.
• Exposure to e-commerce environments.

You will find the technologies we use here: https://stackshare.io/global-fashion-group/gfg. 

WHAT WE OFFER YOU

• The unique opportunity to have a serious impact on a growing organization.
• A dynamic working environment shaping the face of fashion e-commerce in growth markets
• Opportunity to work in a fast-growing business, gain working exposure in the 17 countries across the group.
• Work closely with a global talent pool with an international mindset.

Apply today and join GFG in this exciting role shaping the face of fashion e-commerce!
 

Global Fashion Group embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.