Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack

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 our Team

The Fulfilment tech family is one of the pillars enabling Grab to out-serve our customers and partners in different businesses and marketplaces across Southeast Asia. We are working on high throughput, real-time distributed systems that use sophisticated machine learning techniques to solve hundreds of millions of requests per day. Our mission is to offer the best-in-class products and experiences to our driver partners as to increase adoption and engagement of our services. Improve driver partner opportunities and efficiency in order to fulfill customer orders without fail, rain or shine. And to create efficient marketplaces by determining an optimal price that is both sustainable and loved by our partners and customers.

We are a distributed team with two thirds in Indonesia, and third in Singapore. Our communication is in English, both in spoken and written form. Our team has direct end-user contact, and impact on the bottom line for merchants and thus, Grab.

Tech Stack

Our core services tech stack consists of Golang with Redis, MySQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch data stores as well as HAProxy load balancers. They all run on the AWS cloud infrastructure with auto-scaling abilities. We use GitLab for our code repository and we adhere to the basic Continuous Delivery tenets utilising a host of tools to support our release pipeline and code quality.

Get to know the Role

We are seeking talented & passionate Engineers to join our team, you will have opportunities to work on multiple backend services as well as participating in merchant immersions, talking directly to the end-users, identifying their challenges and how we can help them in their work life. It is very important that our team members take initiatives to identify problems, and have the right mindset and skill sets to solve them.

The Day-to-Day Activities

You are a significant and autonomous contributor to your team who is trusted with designing, creating, delivering, and operating your team’s software systems in a consistently high quality manner. When working on the systems within your team’s domain, you take into account the appropriate architectural patterns, code design, and infrastructure options, ensuring that you deliver a system that is secure, reliable, maintainable, extensible and very well tested. Beyond delivery to the production system, engineers will be responsible for post deployment monitoring as well. Senior engineers will also look for opportunities to improve processes within one’s own team.

In addition to being trusted to operate independently, you also maintain a good partnership with your technical and non-technical stakeholders for projects that you are involved in. You take an active role in your projects as a team member involved in product design to rollout, taking ownership of your work and constantly focusing on moving these projects forward.
Being an experienced team member, you are also expected to continuously help the team grow and improve either by mentoring new or junior members of your team or by introducing and adopting process improvements

Qualifications

The Must-Haves

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Deep understanding of the JavaScript programming language, familiar with various UI components and UI development, and have deep understanding of the Javascript language.
• Writes extensible code for complex projects and picks the right abstractions that adhere to SOLID principles. Understands more complex data structures and algorithms, and recognizes when to use them.
• You can either focus on web/frontend, or look into a full stack position for which you are willing to work on Golang for the backend.
• Experience with defect tracking tools and version control.
• Committed to maintaining a strong set of software engineering skills.
• A good understanding of clean architecture principles.
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures.
• Experience with web frameworks such as React.js preferred.

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.