# Lead Software Engineer, Backend

**Company**: Grab
**Location**: Petaling Jaya
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to be the technical leader of the Partner Integration team at Grab. You will oversee the architecture of a public, partner-facing API platform, turning ambiguous problems into technical direction for the team, and leading projects that span several teams.

Responsibilities:

- Oversee the technical direction of the Partner Integration service

- Design public API contracts that last

- Oversee reliability, scalability, and cost

- Lead operations and incident response

- Be the Engineering Owner for cross-team projects

- Partner across departments and with external engineers

- Raise the standards for the team

Qualifications:

- At least 8 years of backend software engineering experience

- Solid expertise in at least one backend language such as Go, Java, Scala, or C++

- Experience designing and running external-facing APIs or integration platforms used by third parties

- Distributed systems experience with microservices, asynchronous messaging, and data at scale

- Operational excellence with experience owning production services on AWS, GCP, or Azure

- Technical leadership with experience leading technical work with several teams

- Good communication skills for leading clear conversations and discussions

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

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- Java
- Scala
- C++
- API platforms
- Distributed systems
- Microservices
- Asynchronous messaging
- Data at scale
- Relational databases
- NoSQL stores
- Search
- Operational excellence
- Technical leadership
- Communication

### Nice to have
- Experience integrating with POS, ERP, e-commerce, or food delivery and logistics systems
- Experience with product catalog, menu or inventory data
- Experience operating webhook or notification delivery systems
- Experience running large migrations or retiring legacy integration channels
- Public technical contributions

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