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From the employer's careers site First seen 25 Oct 2026 · Still live on 31 Oct 2026

Software Engineer, Backend

Grab Petaling Jaya On-site entry full-time

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Description

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp, offering various services including food delivery, financial management, and transportation.

You will lead the design, development, and maintenance of Grab's mission-critical backend systems, driving technological advancements and setting the standard for engineering excellence.

Responsibilities

  • Design and write code in Go language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab's services
  • Work with infrastructure team to build and scale back-end services and perform root cause analysis investigations
  • Collaborate with mobile team to build reusable modularized mobile components using scalable APIs
  • Explore and create new designs and architectures with other engineering teams to improve scale and performance
  • Participate in code and design reviews to maintain high development standards

Qualifications

  • At least 1 year of experience in backend development
  • Familiarity with running large-scale distributed web or API services, understanding of systems internals and networking, and hands-on experience with databases and data query languages like MySQL or Presto
  • Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure, and understanding of testing frameworks for unit testing, integration testing, and E2E testing
  • Hands-on familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for system development and deployment
  • Understanding of building microservices architecture and a good grasp of distributed systems, RESTful APIs, and message queuing systems
  • Proficiency in any programming language, with a willingness to work with Go

Benefits

  • Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance
  • GrabFlex benefits package
  • Parental and Birthday leave
  • Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
  • Confidential Grabber Assistance Programme
  • FlexWork arrangements

Skills

Required

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