Lead Software Engineer, Mobile (Android) - Fulfilment
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 17, 2026. First seen by Alion on Jan 27, 2026. Grab scores B on the Alion truth index.
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
The Fulfillment tech family is one of the pillars enabling Grab to out-serve our customers and partners in different businesses and marketplaces across Southeast Asia. We are working on high throughput, real-time distributed systems that use machine learning techniques to solve hundreds of millions of requests per day. Our mission is to offer the best-in-class products and experiences to our driver partners as to increase adoption and engagement of our services. Improve driver partner opportunities and efficiency to fulfill customer orders without fail, rain or shine. And to create efficient marketplaces by determining an optimal price that is both sustainable and loved by our partners and customers.
Get to Know the Role
We are seeking an experienced and innovative Senior Software Engineer, Mobile (Android) to join our dynamic team in Jakarta, Indonesia. As a key member of our mobile development team, you will be responsible for developing high-quality Android applications that deliver exceptional user experiences. You will be reporting to the Manager and the role will be onsite in Jakarta.
The Critical Tasks You Will Perform
- Lead project development as the engineering owner, collaborating with product managers to understand requirements and propose solutions.
- Collaborate with product and experience teams to finalize feature specifications, build prototypes, and design experiments.
- Work with the backend team to build modularized reusable components and design scalable APIs.
- Design and write mobile components with Java, Kotlin, and Flutter to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab's services on the Driver App.
- Engage in Driver app stability investigation, application performance analysis, tuning, and optimization.
- Work with different engineering teams to explore and create new design/architectures geared towards scale and performance.
- Participate in code and design reviews to maintain high development standards.
What Essential Skills You Will Need
- A degree in computer science, software engineering or related fields with 8+ years of working experience on mobile application development
- Programming experience in Java or Kotlin, familiarity with design patterns, multi-threading, and good coding style and habits.
- Understanding of the Android system and programming paradigm including OOP, TDD, reactive patterns, and dependency injection.
- Familiarity with AndroidSDK, understanding of Android infrastructure, components, UI, data storage.
- Working knowledge of several architectural approaches including clean architecture, MVP, and MVVM.
- Experience in Android automated testing, familiarity with Android testing frameworks like Espresso, UI Automator, Mockito, Powermock, or Appium.
- Fluent in English, with a conscientious, and teamwork, and a positive and optimistic outlook.
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.