# Senior 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

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp, offering various services such as food delivery, financial management, and ride-hailing.

As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend on Grab's Identity (IAM) team, you will build class-leading registration, authentication, and authorization systems for all user participants in the Grab ecosystem tailored for SEA markets.

Your mission will be to deliver authentication mechanisms that provide proof of user identity while minimizing user friction and accommodating mobile, web, and voice environments.

**Critical Tasks**

- Design and develop scalable backend services and APIs that support multiple client applications, ensuring reliability in a distributed systems environment.

- Lead the full lifecycle of features from requirements gathering through production deployment, collaborating with product, design, and business teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.

- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code that serves as a reference for the team; establish and uphold coding best practices.

- Lead technical discussions and architecture reviews within the engineering team, providing thoughtful feedback and driving decisions that improve system design.

- Mentor and support junior engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing, fostering a culture of learning.

- Ensure system robustness by implementing comprehensive monitoring, logging, and observability practices; identify and address performance bottlenecks.

- Lead incident response and troubleshooting efforts during on-call rotations, demonstrating resilience and decisiveness in resolving production issues.

- Collaborate with QA teams to validate product requirements, ensure test coverage, and maintain deployment stability.

- Continuously improve the codebase by identifying technical debt, proposing engineering solutions, and implementing optimizations that enhance system efficiency.

- Stay informed about relevant technology trends and emerging best practices, bringing ideas to the team.

**Qualifications**

- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with substantial work in distributed systems and backend service development.

- Expertise shipping production-grade applications or backend services as the primary engineering owner.

- Proficiency in Golang, including core syntax, concurrency handling, and optimization techniques (or demonstrated excellence in another programming language with genuine willingness to master Golang).

- Experience with Computer Science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, and system design principles.

- Hands-on experience with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL), including query optimization and performance tuning.

- Demonstrated experience with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP) and Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation).

- Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and Agile development methodologies.

- Experience running and maintaining production services, including service observability, monitoring, and incident resolution.

- Ability to use AI tools and coding agents to enhance productivity and code quality.

**Benefits**

- 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
- Golang
- distributed systems
- backend service development
- Computer Science fundamentals
- relational databases
- cloud platforms
- CI/CD pipelines
- Agile development methodologies

### Nice to have
- microservices architecture
- API design patterns
- containerization technologies
- caching strategies
- message queuing systems

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