Lead Software Engineer, Fullstack

About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. 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.

Get to Know the Team

Automation and Platform Excellence (APEX) aim to Deliver Joy and Excellence to Grab engineers by enabling a frictionless ecosystem, allowing focus on value-adding features for users in a fast and safe manner. Some folks and companies would recognise this as a "Platform Engineering Team", and that is what we do.

Get to Know the Role

When you're an engineer at Grab, you are part of the heart and soul of the company. Our passion is anchored in the work that we do, and this is reflected in the impact we make on millions of lives on a daily basis. Grab Engineering is empowered by creating amazing services and tools that serve millions of passengers, driving partners, and fellow Grabbers.

You will report to our Senior Software Engineering Manager, and you will based onsite in our Petaling Jaya office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You will be a significant and autonomous contributor to your team who is trusted with designing, creating, delivering, and operating your team's software systems.
• You will be working on the systems within your team's domain, you take into account the appropriate architectural patterns, code design, and infrastructure options, ensuring that you deliver a system that is secure, reliable, maintainable, extensible and very well tested.
• You will be responsible for post deployment monitoring as well. Senior engineers will also look for opportunities to improve processes within one's own team.
• You will maintain a good partnership with your technical and non-technical stakeholders for projects that you are involved in.
• You will take an active role in your projects as a team member involved in product design to rollout, taking ownership of your work and constantly focusing on moving these projects forward.
• You will help the team grow and improve by mentoring junior members, introducing process improvements, and having a strong influence to the team roadmap to ensure maximal impact.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• 7+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience with the Python, Go, and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience in writing extensible code for complex projects and pick the right abstractions that follow SOLID principles.
• Understand more complex data structures and algorithms, and recognizes when to use them.
• You can work on both web frontend and backend development with Python and Go.
• Experience with defect tracking tools and version control
• A good understanding of clean architecture principles
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures
• Experience with web frameworks such as React.js
• Experience with mentoring junior engineers and pushing for engineering excellence.

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

What We Stand For At Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.