Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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

Grab For Business team is building the solutions used by enterprise customers and employees to access Grab offerings such as ride hailing, food deliveries, gift cards and more. We are a team built with transparent and stay informed about relevant technology trends and developments, striving for building the products that our users love to use everyday. In next year, we have goals to expand our customer segments, offer richer user experience and contribute more to the success of Grab.

Get to Know the Role

You will work with other experienced engineers on the team to develop our backend services, ensure the robustness and of the system which provides APIs used by several mobile and web app.

You will be reporting to a Software Engineering Manager, who is based in Singapore, and will work onsite in our Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You will work with the product/design/business team to understand requirements, provide product feedback, own and implement the product from start to finish.
• You will create and lead the technical discussions within engineering teams
• You will write code that is reusable, scalable and testable. Your code is the great examples that other team members can follow
• You will collaborate with QAs to make sure all product requirements are met and the deployments are stable.
• You will lead the team to ensure the system robustness, healthy deployment pipelines and observability
• You will review code and technical documents from other team members, provide constructive feedback and aim to raise the engineering bar.
• You will improve the codebase, look for improvement opportunities, propose and set better engineering solutions for the team.
• You will be responsible and responsive during on-call duty. You will lead the team to debug and troubleshoot production issues, especially during incidents

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• You have a good Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures.
• You will have at least 5+ years of experience in software engineering in a distributed systems environment.
• Experience with shipping products (like web applications or backend services) to production as the engineering owner
• Experience running production services, overseeing the service observability and incident resolution
• Proficiency in Golang, including core syntax, concurrency handling, and optimization techniques. Otherwise you can be a good coder in any language but willing to work on Golang
• Experience with RDBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL), cloud services (AWS, GCP), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation). You have knowledge of cloud technologies and experience developing and deploying services on the cloud
• Proficiency in using AI tools and coding agents to boost your productivity
• Familiarity with Agile development, CI/CD pipelines and testing frameworks

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.