# Software Engineering Manager

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

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## Description

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

We are looking for a strategic and visionary Software Engineering Manager to join our growing technology team. In this pivotal role, you will lead a talented team of engineers while driving technical excellence and business impact.

**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, 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.

## Skills

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

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