About the Role
As an algorithm member in the Search and Recommendations Platform team, you will work alongside top talent in China and Singapore to shape the intelligence behind GoFood and GoPay systems. You will design and deploy cutting-edge search, recommendations, and monetisation models that power on-demand and financial use cases across Indonesia. In your first six months, you will play a key role in launching foundational platform capabilities and collaborating with business-facing data science teams, to drive business impact and improve user experience.
What You Will Do
Design and implement algorithms for search, recommendation, or advertising systems to drive discovery and conversion across Goto products.
Build advanced user behaviour models and query/assortment understanding models using LLMs and LLVMs to improve matching accuracy between users, queries, and items across search and recommendation systems.
Collaborate with product, engineering, and business-facing data science teams to define problems, run experiments, and deploy solutions at scale.
What You Will Need
Master’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Machine Learning, NLP, CV, or a related field; strong programming skills in Python, C++, or Java.
Hands-on experience with search/ recommendation/ads systems, with proven improvements to ranking, retrieval, or ad targeting models.
Familiarity with LLMs and/or LLVMs, with experience integrating them into search or recommendation pipelines a strong plus.
Demonstrated ability to innovate with new algorithms or tools and drive measurable impact, especially making use of Large language Models (LLMs) and Large Language and Vision models (LLVMs) in search modeling or recommendation modeling
Strong product intuition and ability to reason from user behavior data and traffic patterns.
Good communication skills in English, both written and verbal.
Self-motivated, curious, and excited by the opportunity to build high-impact systems quickly.
About the Team
We’re a growing team of algorithm members and engineers spread across China and Singapore. We build the core search and recommendation platform capabilities to power use cases all across the GoTo universe. Everyone on the team shares a bias towards action and a passion for deploying models and strategies to real-world problems - where it’s improving ranking and relevance accuracy, scaling LLM-powered retrieval, or personalising customer journeys.
We believe algorithms and engine application are team sports. We work openly, challenge ideas with curiosity, and support one another to build systems that move business forward
Skills Required
- Master's degree or higher in Computer Science, Machine Learning, NLP, CV, or a related field
- Strong programming skills in Python, C++, or Java
- Hands-on experience with search/recommendation/ads systems
- Familiarity with LLMs and/or LLVMs
GoTo Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about GoTo Group and has not been reviewed or approved by GoTo Group.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive to above market for many corporate roles across core entities such as Gojek, Tokopedia, and GoTo Financial. Base pay is often characterized as solid or above market in Indonesia tech roles.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical coverage is characterized as strong in Indonesia and often extends to spouses and children. Company materials also highlight wellness support, parental insurance, and mental‑health counseling for employees and families.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave programs are described as generous, including maternity, paternity, and other special leave types at Tokopedia. Broader time‑off and flexibility practices are portrayed as supportive across corporate roles.
GoTo Group Insights
What We Do
GoTo is the largest technology group in Indonesia, combining on-demand, e-commerce and financial services through the Gojek, Tokopedia and GoTo Financial brands. It is the first platform in Southeast Asia to host these three essential use cases in one ecosystem, capturing a majority of Indonesian consumer household expenditure. GoTo’s mission is to “Empower Progress” by offering an unparalleled selection of goods and services through a comprehensive merchant and partner network and promoting financial inclusion through its leading payments and financial services business.
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