Golang / Go Job: Software Engineer - Backend

Software Engineer - Backend at ZALORA Group

🇸🇬 Singapore › Hoe Chiang   (Posted Jul 25 2017)

About the company
ZALORA exists for the millions of fashion consumers in Asia seeking a shopping experience focused on their unique styles, trends and fit. As Asia’s leading online fashion destination, ZALORA was founded in 2012 and has a presence in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia & Brunei, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Taiwan. ZALORA’s localised sites offer an extensive collection of top international and local brands as well as our own in-house labels across apparel, shoes and accessories for men and women. ZALORA is part of Global Fashion Group, the world's leader in online fashion for emerging markets.

Job position
Permanent
Relocation compensation available

Job description
ZALORA is South East Asia's leading online fashion destination! We've been keeping people stylish in the region for over five years and we're growing, serving millions of customers in a part of the world with challenging network characteristics.

ZALORA is a polyglot organization, but the backbone of all user traffic, the mobile API, is written in Go. As a member of the mobile team, you will shape the direction of app development by providing mobile engineers with a stable and performant API. You will be building high performance, scalable and testable components for our mobile platform.

The API is written in Go and is the bedrock of communication between the apps and the rest of the ZALORA ecosystem. After two and a half years in production, we have a lot of learnings working with Go and are ready to take the API to the next level. The role is based in our Singapore office.

Why ZALORA?

Big company, big challenges: ZALORA is a big e-commerce company in fashion. Our Tech Hub is in Singapore and Vietnam to serve millions users in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, Philippines. So there are a lot of modules need to be built and lot of interesting challenges need to deal with. You can learn a lot by solving those challenges.
Young and talented team members: We are proud to have a very smart and active team with great humor what makes our culture become interesting and open. Furthermore, there are always place for them to share their ideas and knowledge within the team.
Work on what you really interested in: There are a lot of components, written in many languages, you can easily choose whatever you like to work with. Long term career path for anyone who wants to develop themselves.
An ideal environment: Here, we discuss with Data Driven, no place for Ego. Everyone is encouraged to give the feedback or raise new ideas to improve the team and company.
We do offer relocation support

Skills & requirements
1. You should be proficient in:
Golang
Testing and writing testable code.

2. You should have the following qualifications:
B.S. or M.S. Computer Science or related field.
3+ years of software development experience.
2+ years of back-end development experience, bonus for REST APIs.

Apply now!