Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack, SWAT

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

The SWAT team is a diverse and collaborative team dedicated to building best in-class automation tools that enhance operation efficiency of every software engineer in Grab. We value using our creativity and problem solving skills to build software that help engineers to refine daily operations.

Get to Know the Role 

As a Senior Fullstack Engineer, you will report to our Engineering Manager, and you will play an important role in developing cutting-edge software applications. You will work across the stack on both the frontend and backend, ensuring seamless integration and user experience. You will collaborate with other engineers in cross-functional teams, and participate in the full software development lifecycle.

This is an onsite role and our office is based in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You will design, develop and maintain robust and scalable backend services using Golang within a microservices architecture.
• You will design, develop and maintain user-friendly front components using ReactJS within a micro-frontend architecture.
• You will collaborate with other engineers to establish and maintain best practices, take part in code reviews and knowledge sharing sessions.
• You will troubleshoot, debug, and optimize code for performance and reliability.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• At least 4 years of experience as a software engineer writing production code.
• Solid Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures.
• Proficiency in at least one backend language, such as Go, Scala, Java, C++, or others.
• Proficiency in building frontend applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Experience with microservices architecture and an understanding of distributed systems, and RESTful APIs.
• Experience with relational databases (e.g. MySQL).
• Knowledge of software development best practices, including version control (Git), unit testing, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

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.
• 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.