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From the employer's careers site First seen 28 Oct 2026 · Still live on 31 Oct 2026

Software Engineer, Backend

Grab Petaling Jaya On-site full-time

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Description

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

We are looking for a Software Engineer, Backend to join our Fulfilment Platform Engineering Team. The team is responsible for designing and building high-throughput, real-time distributed systems that handle hundreds of millions of requests per day.

Responsibilities

  • Design and write high-quality code in Go to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab's services
  • Collaborate with the engineering team to explore and create new designs and architectures for scale and performance
  • Participate in code and design reviews to maintain high development standards
  • Participate in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning, and optimization
  • Work with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications
  • Collaborate with the infrastructure team to build and scale back-end services and perform root cause analysis investigations
  • Develop, analyze, and fix large-scale systems
  • Debug and solve production incidents during on-call shifts
  • Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and knowledge sharing to peers

Qualifications

  • Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related fields
  • 3+ years of experience in software engineering in a distributed systems environment
  • Experience with Golang, including its core syntax and semantics, standard library, concurrency primitives, and experience developing and optimizing Golang applications
  • Proficiency in maintaining operational excellence and site reliability, including overseeing system performance, ensuring system health, and managing service capacity planning
  • Good computer science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures
  • Familiarity with running large-scale web services and understanding of systems internals and networking
  • Experience developing distributed systems with high throughput and scalability

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

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