Golang / Go Job: Software Engineer

Software Engineer at ZALORA Group

🇸🇬 Singapore › Hoe Chiang Road   (Posted Aug 15 2017)

About the company
ZALORA Engineering
ZALORA is the leading e-commerce company providing fashion throughout South East Asia. ZALORA Engineering has teams in Singapore and Vietnam to serve millions of users in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, Philippines. This regional diversity presents a lot of interesting challenges that you and your colleagues will face. You will learn a lot by tackling these challenges.

ZALORA's e-commerce platform is built with love by the engineering team. The Ho Chi Minh office, 12 Ton Dan, D4 (ZALORA Group) focuses completely on engineering and sets a high standard for software development in the field of e-commerce. This team creates the tech stack that powers ZALORA's stellar shopping experience. This ranges from the online shop and the mobile apps to ZALORA's complex logistics solutions.

The ZALORA Story
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.

ZALORA is not obligated to accept resumes from any third parties on behalf of potential candidates for any position (advertised or otherwise) by any means, unless ZALORA has executed a written agreement with such third party and has expressly requested such third party for candidate referrals. Third parties who provide unsolicited resumes of candidate(s) shall waive and forfeit all rights to claim for any placement fees or referral fees in the event that such candidate is eventually engaged or employed by ZALORA or Global Fashion Group.

Job position
Permanent
Relocation compensation available

Job description
ZALORA Engineering is looking for software engineers to work on the API that powers the mobile apps.

This opportunity will offer you a chance to work on a high traffic site serving millions of customers per month throughout South East Asia. You will be exposed to a polyglot architecture, modern development workflows and a forward-thinking, intelligent team dedicated to solving the big-picture problems in e-commerce.
The API is written in Golang 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 Golang and are ready to take the API to the next level. The role is based in our Singapore office.

Responsibilities
Build high performance, testable components for the mobile API.
Investigate cutting edge technologies and techniques to improve application reliability, developer experience and raw performance.
Think outside the day-to-day and propose ways to elevate the art of API development.

Skills & requirements
BS/MS in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
3+ years of experience with Golang in production.
Solid computer science fundamentals (theory, data structures, algorithms, design patterns).
Familiarity with testing in Go.

Should you need any further information, please contact us at tech-hiring@zalora.com

Apply now!