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In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.\n Get to Know the Team\nThe Metrics Platform team is a team within Grab's Data Technology organization, with members across Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia. We build the central platform for metrics that enables Grabbers across the company to define, serve, discover, and consume trusted business and product metrics at scale. Our platform is an important foundational layer for Grab's AI-powered data ecosystem. By making metrics reliable, reusable, discoverable, and served across teams, we help power better analytics, experimentation, automation, and AI-assisted data workflows across Grab.\nGet to Know the Role\nThe Lead Data Engineer role in the Metrics Platform team is a hybrid data and software engineering role. 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