Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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.

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.

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 an engineering manager who is based in Vietnam. You will work onsite in CMC Creative Space office.

The critical tasks you will perform include:

• Working with the product/design/business team to understand requirements, provide product feedback, own and implement the product from start to finish.
• Creating 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.
• Ensuring the system robustness, having an eye on continuous integration and observability.
• Reviewing code from other team members, providing constructive feedback and aiming to raise the engineering bar.
• Improving the codebase, looking for improvement opportunities, proposing and setting better engineering solutions for the team.
• Being responsible and responsive during on-call duty. Debugging and troubleshooting production issues.

What essential skills you will need include:

• A Bachelor in Computer Science or equivalent. Good computer science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures.
• At least 5+ years of experience in software engineering in a distributed systems environment.
• Experience shipping products (like web applications or backend services) to production and running production services.
• Proficiency in Golang, including core syntax, concurrency handling, and optimization techniques. Otherwise you can be a good coder in any language but willing to learn and 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, Gitlab and its testing frameworks.

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.
• 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 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.