# Lead Software Engineer, Backend

**Company**: Grab
**Location**: Bangalore
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**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 ride-hailing.

The Lending team builds secure, versatile loan products for diverse user segments, managing important platform components like the Loan Management System, Repayments Engine, and Product Flow Orchestrator.

We are looking for a passionate Lead Engineer with the required skills and more to join our team. You will have opportunities to design, develop, and maintain backend components. You will collaborate with the product, business, and programme management teams to ensure deliverables. You will also adopt and advocate software engineering best practices for larger teams, including code reviews, static analysis, feature-flagging, and semantic versioning of internal APIs.

A significant part of your role will involve the design and architecture of backend systems. You will report to an Engineering Manager.

**Critical Tasks:**

- Propose and lead technical improvements that inspire creativity, enhance system performance, and improve efficiency across the team.

- Contribute to technical and product review meetings, offering valuable insights and providing constructive feedback.

- Deliver high-quality, maintainable, and reliable code, taking ownership of the entire development process.

- Collaborate with SRE and DevOps teams to manage scalable and reliable infrastructure, improving.

- Participate in on-call rotation, maintaining by addressing system issues and ensuring a smooth, uninterrupted operations.

- Lead projects, ensuring clear understanding among all partners, updates and resolutions to customers and partners, and taking responsibility for successful outcomes.

**Qualifications:**

- 10 years of experience in a relevant field, with lending domain experience.

- Build robust backend systems, including DBMS, caches, NoSQL, web, and app servers.

- Proficient in Golang, with strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals like data structures, algorithms, and operating systems.

- Demonstrate proactivity, creativity, and a keen ability to balance the needs of product, engineering, and business.

- Use your experience with web technologies and distributed systems to build scalable and reliable solutions.

- Add value with your experience in building consumer-facing products.

- Contribute your knowledge of developing OLTP systems and performance.

- Experience deploying code in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud environments.

**Life at Grab:**

- Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.

- GrabFlex, creating 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
- Golang
- backend systems
- DBMS
- caches
- NoSQL
- web servers
- app servers
- data structures
- algorithms
- operating systems
- distributed systems
- OLTP systems

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