Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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.

Come join the Consumer Experience (CX) Engineering team - we work on a diverse set of consumer problems spanning across core experiences that power the UX navigation and transaction funnels, search and discovery of content and services, User lifecycle covering user growth, engagement and loyalty and the critical platform mission of mobile application developer experience. We are on an exciting mission to connect consumers to Grab’s marketplace by enabling them to seamlessly discover and engage with Grab’s services and partners.

Get to know the Role

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to take part of the CX Team. You will be responsible for ensuring high quality deliverables, spanning across multiple key services powering end to end user journeys going from the login screen to the home and activity pages of the Grab app. These services are one of the top entry points for Grab services, with millions of visitors every day across 8 countries in total.

• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or related fields.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering in a distributed systems environment.
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures.
• Problem solving skills in a complex environment.
• Familiarity with running large scale web services; understanding of systems internals and networking are a plus.
• Strong understanding of system performance and scaling.
• Possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills, able to think critically of the current system in terms of growth and stability.
• You can be a good coder in any language (C++, C, Java, Scala, Rust, Haskell, OCaml, Erlang, Python, Ruby, PHP, Node.JS, C# etc.), but willing to work on Golang.
• Organisational leadership in a multinational company.

WHAT YOU BRING TO GRAB

• 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
• Engage 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 closely with infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services as well as performing root cause analysis investigations
• Design, build, analyze and fix large-scale systems
• Pro-actively debug and solve production incidents during your oncall shift
• Participate in interview loops to help Grab continue hiring top industry talent
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship and knowledge sharing to peers.

Grab is a growth company that looks for team members to grow with it.

Our Commitment

Grab is an equal opportunity employer. We owe our success to the talents of our globally-diverse team and the varying perspectives they add to our thriving community.