# Software Engineering Manager

**Company**: Grab
**Location**: Petaling Jaya
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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

We're looking for a strategic and visionary Software Engineering Manager to join our growing technology team in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia and report to the Head of Engineering.

In this pivotal role, you will lead a talented team of engineers while driving technical excellence and business impact. You'll combine your deep engineering expertise with strong people leadership to build scalable systems, mentor high-performing teams, and shape the technical direction of our organization.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead and mentor a diverse team of engineers across different experience levels and technical specializations, fostering a collaborative and innovative engineering culture

- Participate actively in code and design reviews to maintain high development standards and ensure architectural excellence

- Partner with cross-functional leaders in product, design, and analytics to develop customer-focused product roadmaps and define success metrics

- Develop and communicate the engineering strategy and key result targets for your team, with a focus on improving testability, availability, security, and code quality

- Conduct quarterly planning sessions and build detailed execution plans to ensure smooth delivery of both product and engineering roadmaps

- Attract, recruit, and retain top-tier engineering talent; actively develop career paths and growth opportunities for team members

- Manage team staffing levels in alignment with evolving business needs and organizational priorities

- Act as technical expert, effectively translating complex technical concepts for executive stakeholders and bridging communication between engineering teams and business partners

- Define performance metrics and conduct regular performance reviews to drive accountability and continuous improvement

- Analyze technical and organizational challenges, propose innovative solutions, and implement changes with resilience and decisiveness

- Foster a transparent, inclusive, and empathetic team environment where all engineers feel supported and valued

**Qualifications**

- 10+ years of software engineering experience

- 5+ years of direct people management experience leading teams of junior to lead-level engineers

- Advanced expertise in distributed systems, including high availability, performance optimization, and reliability engineering

- Demonstrated experience building and scaling complex engineering organizations

- Strong expertise in code and design review processes with the ability to maintain high technical standards

- Proven ability to manage full accountability for platform systems serving multiple use cases and products

- Define technology direction and propose innovative, scalable solutions

- Experience developing product roadmaps and defining clear, customer-focused metrics

- Experience managing high-scale, mission-critical systems using modern development practices and AI-assisted tooling

- Familiarity with budget management, industry benchmarking, and competitive analysis

**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
- distributed systems
- high availability
- performance optimization
- reliability engineering
- code review
- design review
- platform engineering
- product roadmaps
- budget management
- industry benchmarking
- competitive analysis

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