Software Engineer, Backend

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

GrabLink's primary business is providing merchants with payment acceptance services. It's first objective was to become Grab's in-house payment gateway. This removes the need for 3rd-party Payment Service Providers (PSPs) such as Adyen, thereby reducing Grab's cost of funds by millions each year. With its license from MAS and card schemes, GrabLink will also commercialize its operations as an acquirer, with expectations of bringing in revenue for GFG

Get to Know the Role 

We're looking for Backend Engineers to join our team. You'll report to the Engineering Manager and have the chance to work on multiple app clients with multiple programming languages. Identifying problems and having the initiative and skills to solve them is crucial in this role. This role is based in Ho Chi Minh city and on-site.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Design and enhance the latest services setting a high standard for availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab's range of products.
• Build and deploy performant modern web backend services.
• Work with engineering team to explore and create new design / architectures geared towards scale and performance.
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards.
• Participate in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization.
• Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications.
• Work with infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services and performing root cause analysis investigations.
• Develop, analyze and fix large-scale systems.
• Learn backend service performance tuning and optimization.
• Debug and modify complex, production software that serve millions of users in southeast asia

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Technical background with 2+ years of experience building APIs.
• Experience with programming principles, financial transaction consistency, and Git version control.
• Experience with software development life cycle and agile methodologies.
• Experience approaching a problem from different angles, analyzing pros and cons of different solutions.
• Experience communicating updates and resolutions to customers and other partners, with the ability to collaborate effectively with teammates.
• Willingness to participate in professional development activities to stay current on industry knowledge, open to embracing new technologies and development practices.
• Grow in a collaborative environment involving different partners and subject matter experts.

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 enables diverse Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.