Senior Software Engineer, Backend
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.
The ACE team builds solutions and services for millions of consumers, merchants and drivers in Southeast Asia. You will be reporting to Senior Software Engineering Manager. ACE team's constant innovation has made us the most loved delivery platform in the region. At Grab we operate with an experimental mindset where the customer decides what they like and don't like. The team is very keen on receiving this feedback which then allows them to design the best features.
Joining the team gives you the opportunity to collaborate with top engineers in the region and make a meaningful impact, with your work reaching millions of customers. You'll work on scalable services that handle tens of millions of orders daily, each built with fail-safes to ensure seamless operations for our customers. This role is onsite based in our Petaling Jaya, Malaysia office.
The critical tasks you will perform include:
- Working with the product and design team to understand requirements, provide product feedback, own and implement the product from start to finish.
- Driving and participating in technical discussions with other engineering teams.
- Writing code that is reusable, scalable and testable. Making sure products are delivered on time and with high quality.
- Collaborating with QAs to make sure all product requirements are met and the deployments are stable.
- Reviewing code from other team members, providing constructive feedback and aiming to raise the engineering bar.
- Improving the codebase. Proposing and setting better engineering solutions for the team.
- Being responsible and responsive during on-call duty. Debugging and troubleshooting production issues.
- Providing technical guidance, mentorship and knowledge sharing to peers.
Essential skills you will need include:
- Solid software engineering and coding skills. Specifically, we're looking for someone with at 4+ years of experience in backend development and willing to work on Golang.
- Good computer science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures.
- Experience in databases SQL and NoSQL databases such as MySQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, etc.
- Knowledge of cloud technologies and experience developing and deploying services on the cloud.
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.
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.