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Lead Software Engineer, Customer Data Platform

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onsite mid full-time Petaling Jaya

First indexed 25 Oct 2026

Description

We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join our Customer Data Platform (CDP) team at Grab. As a technical lead, you will be responsible for building platform capabilities to facilitate scalable onboarding of user data, improving serving capabilities of CDP's user data, and developing scalable real-time data pipelines and architecture.

Responsibilities:

  • Build platform capabilities to facilitate scalable onboarding of user data that can be easily re-used across the company.
  • Improve the serving capabilities of CDP's user data.
  • Develop scalable real-time data pipelines and architecture that is cost-efficient, while allowing non-technical teams to use these real-time capabilities.
  • Lead an engineering team with diverse technical stacks.

Requirements:

  • Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related undergraduate degree.
  • Minimum of 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering with a well-proven track record of leading an engineering team with diverse skillsets.
  • Proficient in at least one of the following programming languages: Python, Go, or Scala.
  • Experience developing large-scale backend systems and has a good understanding of technical trade-offs and evaluations needed to allow high load, low latency systems, while maintaining system reliability and cost efficiency.
  • Experience building APIs, working with OLTP DBs, and operating in a distributed systems environment.
  • Strong English communications with prior work experience in regional and global environments.

Benefits:

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