Lead Software Engineer, Backend

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp, providing various services such as ride-hailing, food deliveries, and financial management.

You will work with other experienced engineers on the team to develop backend services, ensure the robustness of the system which provides APIs used by several mobile and web apps.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform:

• 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:

• You have a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• You have 7+ years of software development experience and a history of delivering successful solutions across teams.
• You have proficiency in Go.
• You have hands-on experience writing and operating backend microservices.
• You understand how developers use version control and CI/CD to collaborate on a codebase and ship software.

Life at Grab:

• 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.
• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours.