# Senior Software Engineer, Business Applications

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

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## Description

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

As a Senior Software Engineer, Business Applications, you will contribute to the development of AI-first enterprise applications and internal platforms, reporting to the Engineering Manager, Business Applications.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Designing, building, and maintaining production features, services, integrations, and workflow automations for internal enterprise applications.

- Managing and making sound trade-offs across quality, maintainability, security, reliability, cost, and delivery speed.

- Contributing to reusable foundations for agentic applications, including APIs, data access, identity, permissions, auditability, human escalation, and operational guardrails.

- Applying automated testing, evaluation, observability, security controls, and production monitoring throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

- Prototyping and rapidly iterating on solutions using data, user feedback, and minimum viable implementations.

- Reviewing code and technical designs, providing constructive feedback, sharing knowledge, and guiding junior engineers toward stronger engineering practices.

- Supporting production delivery and incident investigation, communicating blockers early, documenting learnings, and driving continuous improvement.

The ideal candidate will have:

- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent evidence of operating at senior individual contributor scope.

- Experience using agentic engineering tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex, and applying emerging technologies to improve engineering productivity and product delivery.

- Understanding of APIs, databases, software design fundamentals, system dependencies, and common trade-offs in enterprise applications.

- Experience writing automated tests, improving observability, investigating production issues, and applying secure software practices.

- Ability to own a scoped project or technical outcome, resolve challenges, communicate blockers, and deliver agreed results.

- Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders and collaboration across Product, Engineering, and business teams.

Nice to have skills:

- Experience building internal enterprise applications, business platforms, service management solutions, or workflow automation.

- Experience with AI-enabled or agentic applications, evaluation practices, tool integrations, or responsible automation.

- Experience mentoring junior engineers, leading technical discussions, or contributing to engineering standards and reusable practices.

- Experience working with distributed teams or delivering software used across multiple countries or business functions.

Grab offers various benefits, including:

- Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.

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

- Parental and Birthday leave, and Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave.

- Confidential Grabber Assistance Programme.

- FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours.

## Skills

### Required
- agentic engineering tools
- APIs
- databases
- software design fundamentals
- automated testing
- observability
- secure software practices

### Nice to have
- AI-enabled applications
- evaluation practices
- tool integrations
- responsible automation
- mentoring junior engineers

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