Software Engineer, Backend - Transaction Platform

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 Transaction Platform team develops and optimizes Grab's Order Platform that supports the fast-growing Transport, GrabFood, and GrabMart business across online and offline channels. We adopt a microservice architecture on the backend and use multiple frontend techniques (e.g. IOS, ADR, Flutter, and Web) to serve our end users (e.g. Consumers, Drivers, Merchants, and Partners) across 8 countries. We generalize our microservices into platforms to improve the speed of the market of new products. We follow a system principle, in which systems keep improving upon different feedback signals without human intervention

Get to Know the Role

We're looking for individuals who are passionate about technology and good at teamwork. Grab's mission is to "Drive Southeast Asia forward". If you want to join us and solving real-world problems that millions of people face across the region, we'd love to talk to you and find out more. You will be reporting to the Manager. You will be based onsite in Grab Jakarta Office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Develop with the latest GO language to enhance the availability, scalability, and efficiency of Grab's services.
• Engage in code and design reviews to uphold high development standards and deliver quality software.
• Involve in capacity planning and performance optimization to boost system performance and user experience.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve designs and architectures for scalability and performance.
• Partner with the infrastructure team to build back-end services while ensuring system stability and quick issue resolution.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• You have a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related fields, with at least 3 years of experience in a similar role.
• Solid Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures
• Understanding of system performance and scaling, with experience optimizing system performance.
• Proficiency in GO language, with the ability to write efficient and scalable code.
• Experience building software systems for delivery business or order systems, indicating familiarity with the domain and its unique challenges.

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 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.