Intern, Software Engineer Backend

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 Adserving team, spanning Beijing, Singapore, and Kuala Lumpur, is dedicated to building scalable and ad delivery systems for Grab's platform while prioritizing collaboration, creativity, and camaraderie. Focused on improving metrics like viewable inventory, sell-through rate, and pricing efficiency to maximize ad revenue, the team also fosters inclusive culture through bonding activities, team-building events, and casual gatherings. By increasing collaboration, the team ensures innovation, ad relevance, and impactful results, creating a supportive environment.

Get to Know the Role 

As a valuable member of our engineering department, you will gain hands-on experience developing backend systems that power our applications. This internship will provide you with the opportunity to learn and contribute to real-world projects, enhancing your skills in software engineering.

This is a paid internship role and is based onsite in Petaling Jaya.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code
• Collaborate with teams to design, and ship new features
• Improve existing systems for maximum speed and scalability
• Participate in code reviews and help engineer best practices
• Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing systems
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of our development processes

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Only for candidates who are available to start in July 2025.
• Your studies are in Software Engineering, Computer Science or a related field as an undergraduate
• Only for candidates who are available to start in July 2025
• Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages such as Golang, Java, C++, C, Python., and willing to work with Golang
• You can structure data and write algorithms
• You have experience with database systems, both SQL and NoSQL
• Familiarity with version control systems Git

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the benefits we offer our Interns:

• Attractive Monthly Allowance!
• EPF (Employees Provident Fund) or SOCSO (Social Security Organization) where applicable.

• 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 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.