Overview
About The RoleAt GoTo Financial, engineering powers our biggest innovations. As a Backend Engineer in the DS Engineering team, you’ll help build and improve the platform that supports our data scientists—ensuring it’s scalable, reliable, and ready for advanced AI workloads. Your work directly strengthens model performance across the company and enables smarter, faster decision-making.
You’ll also get the chance to work on industry-defining AI products. We recently collaborated with top engineers and data scientists to launch Indonesia’s first AI-powered fintech voice assistant, DIRA. And we’re just getting started. If you want a front-row seat in shaping GoTo’s AI future, this is the place to be.
What will you do
- Translate our product’s goals into iterative MVPs, evaluate, and then refactor into a scalable and extensible design
- Pair with team members on functional and nonfunctional requirements and spread design philosophy, goals and improvements to code quality across the team
- Design and develop highly scalable, highly available, reliable, secure and fault-tolerant systems with minimal guidance
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Data Science, Product, DevOps, UX, Data Engineering, QA, etc) on planning and execution
- Manage automated build/test/deployment environments
- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development
- Deploy, monitor, maintain, and fix products currently in production
What will you need
- Proven experience in delivering solutions for complex technical challenges with a strong commitment to timely and effective delivery.
- At least 6+ years of relevant software development experience in designing, developing, testing, and deploying applications for large-scale applications
- Deep understanding of Microservices (HTTP & GRPC), and programming languages like Golang , Java (and a willingness to learn others).
- Experience with Golang, Kafka, Postgresql, Kubernetes is expected (and a willingness to learn others).
- Experience with DevOps: Gitlab CI, Terraform.
- Experience with data science is a plusProficiency in OOP, SQL, and Design Patterns; experience with functional programming is a plus
- Strong data modeling experience in Relational and NoSQL databases
- Ability to implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery; well-versed with Agile methodologies, TDD and Test Engineering and Automation
- Ability to design and implement low-latency RESTful/GRPC services
You’ll join the GoTo Financial engineering team, a globally distributed team that builds and maintains one of Southeast Asia’s leading digital financial platforms. Our teams operate with a strong engineering culture—data-driven, collaborative, and focused on solving real user problems at scale. We work closely across product, data, and operations to deliver seamless payment and financial experiences to millions of users and merchants every day. Beyond the work, we value growth, curiosity, and learning from one another. Whether it’s discussing new tech, sharing recommendations, or supporting each other through challenges, we move forward as one team.
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, food and grocery delivery, logistics and fulfillment, as well as financial and payment services through the Gojek 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.
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