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 DescriptionGet to Know the Team
More than 6 in 10 Southeast Asians are unbanked or underbanked today. GrabFin aims to change that by empowering everyone with simple, transparent, and flexible financial products. Some of our products & services include eWallet, lending, insurance, payments backbone & infrastructure, risk & compliance, rewards points & loyalty program.
Get to Know the Role
As the Software Engineer, Fullstack you will have opportunities to work on multiple backend micro-service clusters. It is very important that our team members to identify problems, and have the right mindset and skill sets to solve them. You will report to the Engineering Manager. This position will be onsite at Grab office Jakarta.
The Critical Tasks You Will Perform
- You will design and develop solutions using Go language to enhance the availability, scalability, and efficiency of Grab's services.
- You will collaborate with the engineering team to improve design and architecture focused on scale and performance.
- You will conduct code and design reviews to maintain high development standards.
- You will contribute to service capacity planning and optimize software performance.
- You will work with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications.
- You will team up with the infrastructure department to build and scale backend services and investigate root causes of issues.
- You will design, build, analyze, and troubleshoot large-scale systems.
- You will debug and resolve production incidents during on-call shifts.
- You will participate in interview processes to help recruit top industry talent.
- You will provide technical guidance and mentorship to peers.
What Essential Skills You Will Need
- Backend Skills
- 2+ years experience in software engineering with full stack web and distributed systems experience.
- Good understanding in Golang, including core syntax, concurrency, and optimization techniques.
- Strong grasp of algorithms, data structures, and system design.
- Experience with distributed systems, streaming services, and queuing models.
- Experience with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, ScyllaDB).
- Experience with site reliability including monitoring, capacity planning, and overseeing large-scale web services.
- Familiar with networking protocols and system internals.
- Frontend Skills (Bonus)
- 1-2+ years of experience
- Experience in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Knowledge in frameworks like React, Vue.js, and Svelte.
- Understanding of state management (e.g., Redux), progressive web apps, responsive design, and accessibility.
- Full Stack & DevOps
- Experience with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and real-time data exchanges.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
About our Technology Stack
Our main services use Golang, integrated with Redis, MySQL, DynamoDB, Kafka, and Elasticsearch for data management. Services are orchestrated using Kubernetes and run on AWS cloud infrastructure. Our mobile apps support both iOS and Android platforms with a focus on native languages like Swift and Kotlin, while frontend technologies include Rails, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. GitLab and complementary tools like Jenkins and DataDog support our release pipeline.
Additional InformationLife 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.
Top Skills
What We Do
Grab is more than just the leading ride-hailing and mobile payments platform in Southeast Asia.
