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From the employer's careers site First seen 28 Oct 2026 · Still live on 31 Oct 2026

Lead Software Engineer, Mobile (iOS)

Grab Singapore senior full-time

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Description

As a technical leader, you will solve ambiguous challenges and shape the architecture, infrastructure, and AI foundations that help Grab's engineers build the Super App faster and more safely.

You will define coding principles and technical standards, assess and mitigate risks, monitor outcomes, and drive adoption across the wider iOS community.

Your responsibilities include:

  • Leading the technical direction of the PAX iOS app, including architecture, modularisation, and coding principles that enable engineers and AI agents to extend the app safely.
  • Designing and developing reliable, measurable AI primitives for mobile development at scale.
  • Improving adoption across feature teams through RFCs, migration plans, guidelines, and enablement, with accountability for sustainable outcomes.
  • Collaborating with design platform, mobile platform, and cross-functional stakeholders to align technical strategy and resolve complex business, legal, and product needs.
  • Strengthening engineering quality and risk management through code and design reviews, mentorship, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.

The ideal candidate will have:

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years of iOS development, with expertise in Swift and Objective-C and experience working in large, long-lived codebases.
  • Strong command of AI fundamentals for software engineering, including context engineering, tool use, and function calling.
  • Experience selecting, evolving, and guiding architectural approaches such as MVVM or VIPER, alongside a strong understanding of large-scale application operations, system internals, crash analytics, remote debugging, observability, and phased rollouts.
  • Experience creating detailed technical documentation, with the ability to explain system health, growth opportunities, updates, and resolutions clearly to customers and cross-functional partners.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and improving team processes, engineering standards, and ways of working.

Grab offers various benefits, including:

  • Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
  • GrabFlex, which allows you to create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
  • Parental and Birthday leave, and Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave.
  • A confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
  • FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours.

Skills

Required

  • Swift
  • Objective-C
  • AI fundamentals
  • context engineering
  • tool use
  • function calling
  • MVVM
  • VIPER

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