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

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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 ride-hailing.

We are seeking a talented and passionate Senior Software Engineer to join our Business Platform team, which aims to make merchants happy and help them thrive in their business.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will have opportunities to work on multiple backend services, participate in merchant immersions, and collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform:

  • End-to-End System Ownership: Independently design, build, and operate high-quality software systems, ensuring they are secure, reliable, maintainable, and rigorously tested.
  • Architectural & Operational Excellence: Apply advanced architectural patterns and infrastructure best practices, while maintaining accountability for post-deployment monitoring and system health.
  • Strategic Stakeholder Partnership: Collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, actively contributing to the entire product lifecycle from initial design to final rollout.
  • Process Optimization: Proactively identify and implement improvements to team workflows and engineering processes to enhance overall efficiency and delivery.
  • Mentorship & Team Growth: Act as a senior engineer by mentoring junior engineers and fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional development within the team.

QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Solid software engineering and coding skills, with at least 5 years of experience in a backend language like Go, Scala, Java, or C++.
  • Understanding of building microservices architecture and a good grasp of distributed systems, RESTful APIs, and message queuing systems.
  • Experience with relational databases, such as MySQL.
  • Knowledge of software development best practices, including version control (Git), unit testing, and continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
  • Experience deploying code in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud environments.
  • Familiarity with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Life at Grab:

  • 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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