Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Company Description

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.

Job Description

Get to know the team

When you’re an engineer at Grab, you are part of the heart and soul of the company. Our passion is anchored in the work that we do, and this is reflected in the impact we make on hundreds of millions of lives on a daily basis. Our team is empowered by creating amazing services and tools that serve hundreds of millions of consumers, driving partners, and fellow grabbers.

When people talk about Grab, they generally refer to the apps that we develop, optimize and maintain. With all eyes on us, you’ll be treated as a hero when you deliver according to our high expectations. Our mobile engineering team is a large international group of highly talented developers who strive for quality and innovation. You’ll be working in an agile and test-driven development environment. Apart from developing new features, platforms and maintaining existing products, you also trial and evaluate new mobile technologies.

We are always seeking to innovate our food delivery and supermarket platforms, which requires the help of first-class iOS engineers. Our scale of production is huge, handling tens of millions of bookings every day. When you launch a new code, hundreds of millions of people will see what you are doing in a very short time. Operating at this level is difficult, but very beneficial.

Join our dynamic team where you'll have the opportunity to work on enhancing our consumer and delivery-partner facing features, primarily focusing on Deliveries. This is not just limited to this, as we always welcome fresh ideas and knowledge. You'll be contributing to one of the most extensive codebases in Southeast Asia, impacting an app used by millions daily. It's a chance to leave your mark on a product that touches lives every day.

Get to know the role

As such, we are seeking talented & passionate Engineers to join our team, you will have opportunities to work on multiple app clients with flexible programming languages. It is very important that our team members take initiative to identify problems, and have the right mindset and skillsets to solve them.

The Day-to-Day Activities

• Design, develop, and implement highly complex applications using Golang.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and build requirements.
• Develop technical solutions to complex business problems.
• Design and develop data models and database architecture.
• Maintain code integrity and organization.
• Understand and implement security and data protection measures.

Qualifications

The Must-Haves

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject.
• Proficient with at least one language commonly used for backend services development (Go, C++, C, C#, Java, Python etc.), but willing to work on Golang. ​​Proficiency in Golang will be a strong advantage.
• Experience with software development methodologies and the software development lifecycle.
• Solid experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency with databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

The Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of system performance and scaling.
• Ability to work well in a team setting.

Additional Information

Our Commitment

We recognize that with these individual attributes come different workplace challenges, and we will work with Grabbers to address them in our journey towards creating inclusion at Grab for all Grabbers.