Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 9, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 21, 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
GrabKios is the pillar of Grab's digital products business - from airtime top up, data package, bill payment, e-wallet top up, and many more. We support millions of users in multiple countries with their digital product needs. We empower hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs to grow their digital products enterprise. And we also allow external platforms to start selling digital goods as our partners. We're always keen to grow our impact, and we're looking for individuals to join our Engineering team in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Get to Know the Role
We are looking for experienced and passionate engineers to be part of our Tech Family. We believe you have experience working in a team and delivering work on backend system development. Reporting to the manager, you will work onsite in our Jakarta Office. If you believe you have what it takes, we'd love to hear from you! In return, you will make an impact on millions of people across Southeast Asia.
The Critical Tasks You Will Perform
- Design backend components
- Collaborate with product, business, and other engineering teams to solve our user pain points
- Ensure of high quality, maintainable, and bug-free code
- Participate in technical and product reviews
- Ensure a closure of assigned code reviews
- You will participate in team on-call rotation to help us achieve operational excellence
- Support the DevOps/Infra team in the scope of your services
- Provide guidance, mentorship, and knowledge sharing to your peers
What Essential Skills You Will Need
- You have a degree in Engineering - specialization in CS/IT will be an advantage
- You have at least 4+ years of working experience in a relevant field
- You are proficient in one or more programming languages (we mostly use Go) and the fundamentals of CS, such as data structures and algorithms
- Working knowledge of building distributed backend systems with DBMS (SQL, NoSQL) and caches (Redis) - Kubernetes and Kafka experience will be an advantage
- You showcase proactivity and creativity, and understand the right balance between product, engineering, and business needs
- You have exposure to Agile and weekly sprint and release working models
- Proficiency in English both oral and written
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.