# Head of Engineering, Mobile Backend Frameworks

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

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## Description

Grab is seeking a Head of Engineering to lead its Mobile Frameworks, Backend Frameworks, and Build & Test Infrastructure (CI) domain. You will own the developer-facing foundations that shape how hundreds of engineers write, build, test, and evolve software across Grab's mobile and backend systems.

The scope includes:

- Backend frameworks used across ~500 Go-based microservices (gRPC, Kubernetes)

- Native mobile frameworks for large-scale iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin) applications

- Build and test infrastructure (CI) allowing fast feedback and strong testing hygiene

A core mandate is to align these foundations with emerging trends in agentic and AI-assisted software development, while ensuring they deliver real productivity gains in large, brownfield codebases , not just greenfield experiments.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform:

- Own the technical vision and roadmap for mobile frameworks, backend frameworks, and CI

- Drive adoption of major platform revamps (e.g., backend frameworks, mobile tooling, testing approaches)

- Lead a strong push on shift-left and automated testing, improving test coverage, reliability, and developer confidence

- Enable agentic and AI-assisted development through a hybrid strategy of internal platforms and best-of-breed tools

- Pilot new capabilities, move fast with partial coverage, and scale what works

- Partner with senior ICs to set architectural direction and simplify complex systems

- Lead and grow a highly technical organization of ~30–40 engineers

- Manage change across teams by combining clear standards, platform defaults, and strong stakeholder alignment

QUALIFICATIONS: What Essential Skills You Will Need:

- 12–15+ years of software engineering experience, with significant leadership in platform, framework, or developer infrastructure teams

- Proven experience supporting large engineering organizations and complex brownfield systems

- Deep hands-on experience in at least one of:

- Backend platforms (Go, gRPC, Kubernetes, microservices)

- Large-scale native mobile development (Swift / Kotlin)

- Build, test, or CI infrastructure

- Strong technical judgment and credibility (you don't need to code daily, but you can guide and challenge designs)

- Demonstrated ability to drive adoption and change, not just build tools

- Exposure to agentic coding or AI-assisted development tools

- Experience modernizing legacy systems without slowing delivery

Life at Grab: We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

- We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.

- With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.

- Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave

- We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.

- Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- gRPC
- Kubernetes
- microservices
- Swift
- Kotlin
- iOS
- Android
- CI/CD
- agentic coding
- AI-assisted development

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