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.