Lead Software Engineer

Lead and deliver large, complex cross-team technical projects for the Core Marketplace responsible for majority of Carousell’s revenue.

Make and communicate key technology and architecture decisions, contribute to design and code, and mentor engineers across the organization.

Collaborate with product managers, designers, and senior engineers to improve platform quality, reduce technical debt, and increase developer productivity.

8+ years in software development with 2+ years as a Lead Engineer or equivalent technical leadership role.

Experience leading multiple engineering teams and building scalable, web-scale microservices systems.

Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or Java and deep knowledge of distributed systems, databases (Postgres), key-value stores (Cassandra), caching (Redis), and search engines (Elasticsearch).

Work Experience Required: 8+ years software development, 2+ years technical leadership. Other mandatory skills as above.

Experienced in technical leadership in product development, comfortable with ownership of architecture and engineering strategy across teams.

Strong foundation in distributed systems and scalable microservices suited to high availability and high revenue impact domains.

Skilled in cross-functional collaboration and mentoring, with focus on impactful results and improving engineering practices.