Senior Data Scientist - Search & Recommendation

About this role

About the Role

As an algorithm expert on the Search and Recommendations Platform team, you will work alongside top talent in Singapore, China, Indonesia, and India 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.

If you are passionate about applying advanced algorithms to deliver real business outcomes, this is one of the highest-leverage roles in the company.

What You Will Do

What You Will Need

About the Team

We’re a growing team of algorithm members and engineers spread across Singapore, China, Indonesia, and India. 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 - whether it’s improving ranking and relevance accuracy, scaling LLM-powered retrieval, or personalising customer journeys.

We believe algorithm and engine application is a team sport. We work openly, challenge ideas with curiosity, and support one another to build systems that move the business forward

About GoTo Group GoTo is the largest digital ecosystem in Indonesia. GoTo's mission is to 'empower progress' by offering technology infrastructure and solutions that help everyone to access and thrive in the digital economy. The GoTo ecosystem provides a wide range of services, including mobility, delivery, payments, financial services, and technology solutions for merchants. The ecosystem also provides e-commerce services through Tokopedia and banking services through its partnership with Bank Jago.

About Gojek Gojek is Southeast Asia’s leading on-demand platform and pioneer of the multi-service ecosystem with over 2.5 million driver partners across the regions offering a wide range of services such as transportation, food delivery, logistics and more. With its mission to create impact at scale, Gojek is committed to resolving consumer problems and raising standards of living by connecting consumers to the best providers of goods and services in the market.