Engineering Manager II, Backend

Company Description

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.

Job Description

Get to Know the Team

Grab Financial's Lending business provides microcredit and loan products to our valued drivers and merchants within the Grab ecosystem. Over the past five years, this business has not only matured but also become a significant profit driver for Grab. Our team comprises experts in Fintech Lending, spanning across multiple teams and business verticals. Currently, our lending operations extend to six Southeast Asian countries: Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, and Thailand, with a dedicated regional and country team structure.

You will be reporting to Senior Engineering Manager. It is an Onsite role based in Bangalore.

Get To Know The Role

As an Engineering at Grab, you will play an important role where you will lead strategic programmes in product and technology development within the dynamic realm of lending.

In this hybrid role, You will chart and lead the pursuit of the broader technical strategy, working with engineering, product managers and business owners. You will be a people manager, steering engineering while coaching junior team members. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of Lending at Grab, where your leadership will directly influence our trajectory in this critical area.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You lead a team in collaboration with the product, business, and program management team to be on top of your deliverables
• You will participate in technical and product review meetings
• Accountable For the timely delivery of high quality, maintainable and operationally excellent code
• You ensure the timely closure of all the assigned code review and design reviews
• You will work closely with SRE and DevOps team to setup hardware and microservices infrastructure

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Embody the 4H principles: Heart, Hunger, Honour, and Humility.
• 9+ years of experience in software development management, with a strong background in B2C products and services.
• Managing large-scale, high-availability web and mobile applications, including geo-distributed teams.
• Expertise in building high-volume internationalized web and app experiences, while developing and retaining multi-disciplinary teams.
• Using data and metrics to balance feature development with time-to-market.

Additional Information

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.

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.