Description
Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp, offering various services such as food delivery, financial management, and transportation.
We are looking for an experienced and passionate backend engineer to join our Tech Family. You will develop scalable backend systems that power products used by millions of people across Southeast Asia. You will be expected to take ownership of complex technical problems end to end, drive high-quality execution, and raise the engineering bar through strong technical judgment, collaboration, and mentorship.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, and operation of scalable, maintainable, and reliable backend services and platform components.
- Convert product and requirements into technical solutions while driving design discussions and architectural trade-offs.
- Oversee the delivery of high-quality code by maintaining standards in testing, performance, observability, and rigorous code reviews.
- Partner with product, business, mobile, web, data, and infrastructure teams to solve end-to-end-user and system challenges.
- Improve service reliability through monitoring, proactive system health fixes, incident response, and root cause analysis.
- Participate in the team's on-call rotation and take active ownership during production incidents.
- Guide engineers through technical coaching, design reviews, and knowledge sharing.
- Identify and guide ongoing improvements in engineering processes, developer productivity, and overall system health.
Qualifications
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, with backend development experience in production environments.
- Proficient in one or more programming languages such as Go, and have computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and distributed systems.
- Experience designing, building, and operating distributed backend systems at scale.
- Solid experience working with SQL/NoSQL databases, caching systems such as Redis, and asynchronous or event-driven architectures.
- Debugging, troubleshooting, and performance optimization skills.
- Proficiency in communicating in English.
- You work in Agile environments and collaborate well across departments.
Benefits
- Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
- GrabFlex, a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
- Parental and Birthday leave, and Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave.
- Confidential Grabber Assistance Programme.
- FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours.