Software Engineer, Backend

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

Come join Grab Fulfilment team, we're dedicated to building the most trusted and loved platform for all things food in Southeast Asia. When you're an engineer at Grab, you are part of the heart and soul of the company.

Get to Know the Role

You will lead the design, development, and maintenance of our mission-critical backend systems, driving technological advancements and setting the standard for engineering excellence.

This role is onsite based in our Petaling Jaya, Malaysia office and report to the Senior Software Engineering Manager.

This is a contract role for 24 months.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You will design and write with the latest GO language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab's range of services
• You will work with infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services and performing root cause analysis investigations
• You will work with mobile team to build reusable modularized mobile components utilising scalable APIs
• You will work with different engineering teams to explore and create new design/architectures geared towards scale and performance
• You will participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• We're looking at least 1 year working experience on backend development
• You will have familiarity with running large-scale distributed web or api services; understanding of systems internals and networking and hands-on database and at least one data query languages like mysql or Presto
• You will have experience on cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure and understanding of testing frameworks for unit testing, integration testing and E2E testing
• You have hands-on familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for system development and deployment
• You understand building microservices architecture and a good grasp of distributed systems, RESTful APIs, and message queuing systems. Your knowledge in these areas will develop our back-end services.
• You can be a good coder in any language, but willing to work on Golang

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 enables diverse Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.