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From the employer's careers site First seen 31 Oct 2026

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Grab Singapore On-site senior full-time

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Description

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp, providing various services such as food delivery, financial management, and transportation.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who can write high-quality code daily and lead projects through the full life cycle while dealing with cross-team dependencies and ambiguities.

Responsibilities

  • Take ownership of a wide range of engaging problem spaces that encompass the entire product lifecycle management, including front-end development, database design and management, data visualization, building APIs, and CI/CD management, among others.
  • Design and write with the Go language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Demand team's range of services.
  • Participate in code and design reviews to maintain high development standards.
  • Participate in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning, and optimization.
  • Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications.
  • Partner with other engineering teams to explore and create new designs and architectures geared towards scale and performance.
  • Work with the infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services and performing root cause analysis investigations.
  • Design, build, analyze, and fix large-scale systems.
  • Participate in the team on-call rotation to help achieve operational excellence.
  • Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and knowledge sharing to peers.

Qualifications

  • 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.
  • Understanding of system performance and scaling.
  • Programming skills in any language, with a willingness to work with Golang.
  • Passionate about building products, features, and platforms to accelerate business growth.

Benefits

  • Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
  • GrabFlex, a benefits package that suits individual 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.

Skills

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