Description
Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp, offering various services such as food delivery, financial management, and ride-hailing.
As a Distinguished Engineer focusing on Architecture & Engineering Excellence, you will be a technical authority and advisor to the CTO and Heads of Engineering. Your primary mission is to ensure that the Engineering and Data Science organizations have the architectural foundation, engineering rigor, and culture necessary to achieve the company's strategic technical vision and deliver systems for massive, global scale, efficiency, and reliability.
Key Responsibilities:
- Set the Grab-wide Technical Vision: Lead the definition and evangelization of a shared technical vision across all of Grab, pioneering new technical spaces and shaping the long-term technical strategy.
- Resolve Systemic Complexity: Solve Grab's most impactful and complex problems, resolving technical trade-offs that cut across Super-Tech Families (SuperTFs) and Grab's overall architecture.
- Drive Engineering Excellence & Culture: Develop company-wide coding principles, quality, and standards. Lead the cultural shift towards an "automation-first" mindset across engineering.
- Technical Incubation and Implementation: Serve as a hands-on leader, designing and implementing core components, or guide and sponsor roles to ensure the most important, multi-quarter projects are architecturally sound and successfully landed.
- Mentorship and Advocacy: Develop the next generation of engineers, including formal mentoring for Principal and Senior Principal Engineers. Represent our engineering expertise in industry forums and serve as a technical thought leader.
Critical Tasks:
- Architecture & Design Leadership: Proactively identify issues, promote and deliver changes to Grab's architecture that decrease coupling and improve productivity and stability.
- Hands-on Technical Leadership: Be a Key Contributor to Grab's most mission-critical and foundational applications or libraries.
- Business-Tech Mapping: Understand Grab's business by applying appropriate technology to solve business problems, anticipating the evolution of both business and technology.
- Organisational Improvement: Lead and create an overall quality risk analysis and mitigation plan for Grab.
- Crisis & Unblocking: Be frequently consulted for making difficult trade-off decisions.
- External Advocacy: Represent the company's engineering expertise in industry forums and serve as a thought leader.
Qualifications:
- Technical Mastery: Industry-recognized level of expertise in a chosen technical specialization.
- Strategic Impact: Proven ability to influence outcomes at the highest level of the organisation.
- Thought Leadership: Experience in representing the company at the industry level.
- Self-Starter: Comfortable with ambiguity, takes the initiative to challenge the status quo.
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.