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From the employer's careers site First seen 31 Oct 2026

Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Fulfillment)

Grab Petaling Jaya On-site senior full-time

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Description

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp, providing various services such as food delivery, financial management, and transportation. The Fulfillment tech family builds high-throughput, real-time distributed systems powered by sophisticated machine learning to process hundreds of millions of requests daily.

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to join our growing engineering team. In this role, you'll design, develop, and maintain robust backend services that power our platform and impact millions of users. You'll work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to build scalable, efficient systems while continuously innovating and improving our technical infrastructure.

Key responsibilities:

  • Design and write with the cutting-edge GO language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab's range of services.
  • Contribute to service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning, and optimization.
  • Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards.
  • 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.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • Background in backend development with a clear architecture mindset.
  • At least 5 years of experience in backend development with programming skills in Golang.
  • Experience with programming principles, financial transaction consistency, and Git version control.
  • Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC): Experience with SDLC and Agile methodologies to manage tasks.
  • Experience designing scalable and maintainable architectures.
  • Experience with a relational database such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle.
  • Understanding of security best practices and secure coding principles.
  • Experience using coding agents and AI to speed up daily work.

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.

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