Global Fashion Group

Overview of job

Global Fashion Group is the leading fashion and lifestyle destination in growth markets across LATAM, SEA and ANZ, listed in the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. From our people to our customers and partners, we exist to empower everyone to express their true selves through fashion. Our three e-commerce platforms: Dafiti, ZALORA and THE ICONIC connect an assortment of international, local and own brands to over 800 million consumers from diverse cultures and lifestyles. GFG’s platforms provide seamless and inspiring customer experiences from discovery to delivery, powered by art & science that is infused with unparalleled local knowledge. As part of the Group’s vision is to be the #1 online destination for fashion & lifestyle in growth markets, we are committed to doing this responsibly by being people and planet positive across everything we do.

ABOUT THE TEAM 

The Marketing by GFG, was launched in 2020 to accelerate brands’ growth and exposure efficiently. Our vision is to be the most efficient media solution for brands to invest and grow their business across our regions. The product helped the brands to drive more sales faster with a reduced cost. MbG is not aimed to support the brands only, it's also a great tool for marketplace Sellers to improve the listings visibility and afford an important margin.

ABOUT THE ROLE 
In this role as Senior Software Engineer you will be working closely with other people in the teams to provide architectural vision and strategy for GFG’s internal tools suite, and you will have the capability to provide detailed technical guidance to the team, enabling them to execute more effectively and deliver products on time. You will also investigate the latest technologies to improve site reliability, the developer experience and raw performance. 

WHAT WILL YOU DO

• Work in an agile environment to develop a best-in-market experience.
• Write and maintain clean and well-tested code
• Work on distributed systems at scale with high traffic workloads
• Collaborate with other software engineers and stakeholders in your team to build and maintain APIs in our microservices architecture (Kubernetes) 
• Lead the development of new features, delivering to our standard, on time.
• Mentor and provide material feedback to junior team members.

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
• 6+ years of experience with high-traffic distributed systems and client-server architectures.
• Proficiency in full-stack web development including Javascript, Typescript, Python, Golang, React is a plus.
• Good understanding of AWS (our stack is fully deployed on AWS).
• Experience building web apps, PWAs and their accompanying APIs.
• Experience designing and building APIs.
• Experience with distributed systems and client-server architectures.
• A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competency in data structures, algorithms, software design and deep understanding of software design patterns.