Software Engineering Manager II

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 communication platform team builds highly scalable, high-throughput solutions that power all communications sent from Grab to our users (including push notifications, Inbox messages, emails, SMS, Whatsapp and more) to millions of Grab users. We operate at the scale of Billions of messages each month. Our communication platform powers communications across all business verticals at Grab - including marketing and non-marketing messages. This team is also at the forefront of adopting AI innovations, mobile innovations and ways of working. We take pride in building distributed systems that have a real impact on the lives of millions of users in our endeavour to out-serve the underserved population.

Get to Know the Role

You will be responsible for building, growing, and leading a team of engineers focused on delivering high quality deliverables. You will have opportunities to develop backend and mobile components. Not only will you get to collaborate with the engineers, product, business, and program management teams to be on top of your deliverables, but you will also serve as a mentor to your teammates to help them grow. You will work onsite at CMC Creative Space, district 7, HCMC and report to the Manager, who is based in Singapore.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Lead a team of engineers across different tech stacks. You'll participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards.
• Partner with cross functional leaders across product, design, analytics to build the product roadmap, set customer-focused metrics and experiment designs.
• Lead the quarterly planning and build a smooth execution plan with the team for securing the delivery of product and engineering roadmap.
• Set the engineering strategy and engineering key result targets for the team, consistently improve across testability, availability, security and code quality for your systems and modules.
• Attract and retain senior engineering talent, actively mentor and develop engineering talent in the team and across Grab.
• Keep your team staffing aligned with business needs and quickly pivot to changing needs.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Experience: 8+ years of engineering experience on backend technologies and at least 2+ years as a successful software engineering manager
• Leadership & Talent Development: Demonstrated experience attracting and retaining top talent with a proven track record of mentoring engineers to achieve their full potential
• Technical Proficiency:
  • Proficiency in CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, or similar platforms)
  • Experience with database architecture, including MySQL and PostgreSQL
  • Hands-on experience deploying code in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud environments
• Cultural Fit: A cultural role model with a strong sense of humility and empathy, ready to roll up your sleeves and work alongside your team to drive 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 enables diverse Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.