Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack

About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Get to Know the Team

GrabX is the centralized platform for managing product configurations and running experiments at Grab. It allows users to control how products behave for different users, regions, and conditions without the need for code deployments. This flexibility ensures that product teams can iterate quickly and safely on configurations, enhancing the overall user experience.The platform is designed to accelerate Grab’s product rollout velocity while maintaining positive benefits for consumers and ensuring that business performance remains unaffected. By decoupling configuration from code, GrabX empowers teams to make data-driven decisions and optimize product impacts through controlled experiments.

Get to Know the Role

This is a hands-on role involving building a scalable and resource efficient cutting edge software platform. You will build a available, scalable and resource efficient experimentation platform to drive real-world impact in Grab's services that consists of tens of thousands of consumers, drivers and merchants.

You are expected to have understanding of software development life-cycle and best engineering practices.

You will report to the Software Engineering Manager while being based onsite at our Petaling Jaya, Malaysia office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You will be part of design, development and launch of new features of the experimentation platform using GoLang, MySQL DB, S3 and REST APIs.
• You will be part of end to end software development lifecycle of software application including coding, testing, reviewing & deployment.
• You will participate in code and design reviews with the team to maintain high engineering standard practices.
• You will participate in on-call rotations with the team to support platform users. Help to troubleshoot, mitigate and resolve issues reported by users.
• You will identify ways to enhance the platform's performance, capabilities, and user experience.
• You will write technical documents such as RFCs, RCAs
• You will work with cross-functional teams to understand their needs and optimize solutions.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• You have a bachelors degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology or related fields with
• +3 year of professional experience in software development.
• You have understanding of engineering practices and design patterns. Experience writing efficient, readable, maintainable and testable code in programming language in GoLang.
• Proficiency in Golang with understanding of goroutines and go libraries.
• You have experience with MySQL database and writing complex and efficient queries.
• You have proficiency of working with VCS such as git, git flows, deployment strategies etc.

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.
• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

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.