Software Engineer

About the Role

As a Software Engineer at Trendyol, you will take end-to-end ownership of your product domain-from understanding core business goals to designing, developing, testing, and operating high-performance systems that directly shape seamless customer experiences. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you will champion automated testing, proactive production monitoring, high reliability, and scalable architecture to deliver solutions relied upon by millions every day. Leveraging modern technologies and best practices, you will evolve our distributed systems and bridge technical excellence with tangible customer impact.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, high-throughput, and resilient microservices and event-driven patterns.
• Take complete ownership to analyze requirements, architect and build domain models across the stack, and reliably deliver high-impact software using polyglot tools and modern deployment pipelines.
• Take end-to-end ownership of test automation by writing comprehensive unit, integration, and smoke tests to maximize test coverage and prevent production bugs or incidents.
• Drive operational excellence and system reliability by actively monitoring live application metrics, dashboards, and system health to proactively detect bottlenecks and resolve production issues.
• Architect event-driven workflows and distributed systems to ensure robust, real-time synchronous and asynchronous communication across services.
• Partner with product managers, team leads, and cross-functional peers to translate complex customer service business needs into predictable, well-scoped technical deliverables.
• Adopt modern engineering practices and AI-assisted workflows to boost development velocity, optimize code delivery, and drive continuous technical improvement.

Expected Qualifications

• Team Player: A humble team player with strong learning agility. You adapt quickly to new tech stacks, tools, and business contexts, turning changing priorities into fast, high-impact engineering solutions.
• Full Stack Delivery: Experience shipping features end-to-end - backend services, responsive frontend UIs, and automated tests across the entire delivery pipeline
• Practical Engineering: Solid OOP, design patterns, clean code, software craftsmanship, and refactoring, domain modeling, distributed systems
• Testing Mindset: Treats testing as part of the product, not an afterthought; writes clear unit and integration tests, designs for testability, and uses CI to enforce quality
• Language Experience: 2+ years in at least one of Java, Go, C#, Scala, Kotlin, Node.js.Experience building dynamic frontends with modern JavaScript/TypeScript stacks is a strong plus
• Data Management: Experience with relational and/or non-relational systems such as PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, MongoDB
• Event-Driven Systems: Familiarity with asynchronous messaging (Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ) for decoupled, scalable designs
• CI/CD: Hands-on continuous integration and continuous delivery; comfortable with automated test pipelines and release gates
• Agile Communication: Clear written and spoken communication; comfortable in iterative delivery
• AI-Assisted Craft: Experience or strong willingness to use modern AI coding tools (Cursor, Codex, LLMs) while keeping code quality and security standards high
• Language Skills: Good command of written and spoken English.