Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Life at Grab

At Grab, every Grabber is guided by The Grab Way, which spells out our mission, how we believe we can achieve it, and our operating principles - the 4Hs: Heart, Hunger, Honour and Humility. These principles guide and help us make decisions as we work to create economic empowerment for the people of Southeast Asia.

Get to know our Team

The Fulfillment Tech family is one of the pillars promoting Grab to out-serve our customers and partners across multiple businesses and marketplaces in Southeast Asia. We work on high-throughput, real-time distributed systems that use machine learning techniques to handle hundreds of millions of requests per day.

Our mission is to offer the best products and experiences to our driver partners. This is to increase adoption and engagement of our services. We aim to improve driver partner opportunities and efficiency. Our goal is to fulfill customer orders without fail, rain or shine. We aim to create efficient marketplaces by determining an best price that is both sustainable and loved by our partners and customers.

 

Get to know the Role

Shape the foundational system architecture and microservice configuration flexibility within Grab's Fulfillment Tech family. In this Jakarta-based, onsite role, you will report to a Software Engineering Manager. You will build impact supply and driver signal systems to power collaboration with teams across the entire Grab ecosystem.

 

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Improve scalable microservices using Golang on AWS.
• Partner with several teams (Product, Frontend, QA, and DevOps) to deliver high-quality software and automate deployments.
• Write clean, maintainable code, conduct Experience writing clean, concise code with comments code reviews, and enforce industry best practices for security and performance.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex system issues to ensure high availability and minimal production impact.

The Must-Haves

• 3+ years of production experience; proficient in Golang (or experience in Java, Scala, C++ and eager to switch to Go).
• Experience with microservices, distributed systems, RESTful APIs, and message queues.
• Hands-on experience with SQL (e.g., MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g., DynamoDB).
• Knowledge of Git, unit testing, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience building scalable, resilient, and observable distributed systems, system design abilities, and excellent.
• Familiarity with open-source search engines, specifically Lucene and Elasticsearch.
• Experience with performance profiling, optimization, and system debugging.

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.