Backend Software Engineer

Get to Know the Team

The Business Platform team develops and optimizes the core platform for every business in Southeast Asia to connect, engagement and transact with Grab Consumer. The Core Experience of the Business Platform at Grab, involves a range of fundamental features that the product, platform or service will deliver to the Merchants. We adopt a microservice architecture on the backend and use multiple frontend techniques (e.g. IOS, ADR, Flutter, and Web) to serve our end users (e.g.Merchants, Business Partners) across 8 countries. We generalize our microservices into platforms to improve the speed of the market of new products.

Get to Know the Role

We're looking for individuals who are passionate about technology and good at teamwork. Grab's mission is to "Drive Southeast Asia forward". You will be reporting to the Engineering Manager and the role will be hybrid.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Design and write with the cutting-edge GO language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab's range of services, resulting in a efficient system.
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain Grab's high development standards, ensuring the delivery of high-quality software.
• Contribute to service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning, and optimization, leading to improved system performance and user experience.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to explore and create new designs/architectures geared towards scale and performance, contributing to the evolution of Grab's technology stack.
• Work with the infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services and performing root cause analysis investigations, ensuring system stability and swift resolution of issue

Requirements

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• You have a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related fields, with at least 3 years of experience in a similar role.
• You possess solid Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures.
• You have a sound understanding of system performance and scaling.
• Proficiency in GO language, with the ability to write efficient and scalable code.
• Experience in building software systems for delivery business or order systems is a plus.

Additional information

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.

What We Stand For At Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.