Global Fashion Group

Overview of job

Global Fashion Group is the leading fashion and lifestyle destination in growth markets across LATAM, SEA and ANZ. Our three e-commerce platforms: THE ICONIC, ZALORA and Dafiti connect an assortment of international, local and own brands to millions of consumers from diverse cultures and lifestyles. Powered by our best-in-class operational infrastructure, which is fashion-specific and tailored to local market needs, our platforms provide an inspiring and seamless end-to-end customer experience. We stand for benchmark-setting customer service, delivery options, returns policies, and curation of brands.

About the function

At GFG, Technology is core to long-term success and is a crucial enabler of a great Customer Experience. We are a mix of experts in fashion, logistics, data analytics, marketing, and design, guided by business consultants and tech geniuses – everyone contributes to the success of GFG.

Our Engineering Department plans, builds and maintains the technology that drives high traffic ecommerce platforms. Our ability to deliver fast, safe and scalable solutions is critical in delivering first-class experiences to our customers. Our teams are organised by business domain and take ownership of everything they do in a you built it, you own it, model.

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).

• Annual Leave: 15 days
• Sick leave/Mental Health Days: 30 days.
• Occasion leave: 1 day.
• 13th month salary.
• Annual bonus: up to 3 months based salary (depends on company performance).
• Home Workspace support: up to 7mil/person.
• Medical benefits: Social insurance, medical insurance & AON insurance.
• Macbook is provided.
• Support for English class.
• Support Gym membership.
• Additionally, we offer a flat hierarchy, a fun and flexible work environment.

• You will convey solid experience in developing high performance 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.