Lead Software Engineer, Backend

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

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer who can write high-quality code and lead projects through the full life cycle while dealing with cross-team dependencies and ambiguities.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of a wide range of engaging problem spaces that encompass the entire product lifecycle management, including front-end development, database design and management, data visualization, building APIs, and CI/CD management, among others.
• Design and write with the Go language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Demand team's range of services.
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain high development standards.
• Participate in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning, and optimization.
• Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications.
• Partner with other engineering teams to explore and create new designs/architectures geared towards scale and performance.
• Work with the infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services and performing root cause analysis investigations.
• Design, build, analyze, and fix large-scale systems.
• Participate in the team on-call rotation to help achieve operational excellence.
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and knowledge sharing to peers.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related fields.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering in a distributed systems environment.
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures.
• Understanding of system performance and scaling.
• Programming skills in any language, with a willingness to work on Golang.
• Passionate about building products, features, and platforms to accelerate business growth.

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.