Senior Software Engineer

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

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our growing engineering team in Singapore. In this role, you'll take ownership of designing, building, and maintaining critical software systems that power our internal experimentation platform and serve millions of users across the region.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable, maintainable solutions that support platform growth and reliability
• Deliver well-tested code and uphold engineering standards across the team
• Collaborate with product, design, and backend teams to turn business needs into solutions
• Improve system performance, reliability, observability, and engineering quality through optimization and refactoring
• Contribute to technical design, architecture, and code reviews
• Troubleshoot production issues and implement measures to strengthen system reliability
• Mentor junior engineers through guidance and knowledge sharing
• Use data and experimentation to improve technical decisions, customer experience, and business outcomes
• Participate in on-call rotations and own incident response and resolution
• Stay current with industry practices and technologies, bringing ideas to the team

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience building production systems at scale
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, system design, architecture, and scalability expertise
• Proficiency in modern languages such as Go, Spark, or Java, and relevant frameworks
• Experience building and maintaining complex distributed systems at scale
• Knowledge of performance optimization, reliability, testing, and debugging best practices
• Experience designing and integrating APIs and backend services
• Understanding of secure coding and security-first system design
• Solve ambiguous problems with pragmatic, high-quality solutions
• Strong collaboration skills in cross-functional teams
• Product mindset with a focus on user experience and customer needs
• Experience with experimentation, instrumentation, and data-informed development
• Familiarity with modern development tools, CI/CD, and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and supporting team development

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