Software Engineer, Mobile (iOS)

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

The Fulfilment tech family enables Grab to serve our customers and partners across Southeast Asia. We build high throughput, real-time distributed systems that process hundreds of millions of requests daily.

Our mission is to offer the best products and experiences to our driver partners. We improve driver partner opportunities and efficiency to fulfil customer orders without fail. We create efficient marketplaces by determining prices that are both sustainable and valued by our partners and customers.

Get to Know the Role

You will join our team in Jakarta as a Mobile (iOS) Software Engineer. You will build iOS features used by driver partners across the region, including communication experiences, AI-assisted workflows, and offline-first screens that remain reliable in real-world operating conditions.

You will work with product managers, designers, backend engineers, data analysts, and other mobile engineers to build features for the Grab driver app. You will report to the Software Engineering Manager and based fully on-site in Jakarta office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You will develop iOS features using Swift for driver communication, AI-assisted workflows, and offline-first screens that handle unstable network conditions.
• You will integrate iOS applications with backend APIs and mobile platform components to deliver reliable user experiences.
• You will collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to understand requirements and evaluate product impact through data analysis.
• You will write testable code following established engineering standards and participate in code reviews to maintain product quality.
• You will resolve issues related to app performance, reliability, and offline behavior through debugging and testing.
• You will contribute to app stability through unit testing, integration testing, and validation of features before release.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Up to 2 years of professional iOS development experience, internship experience, or project experience building iOS applications using Swift and the iOS SDK. You will use Swift daily to build features for the driver app.
• Understanding of mobile application architecture patterns (MVC, MVVM, VIPER, or similar). You will apply these patterns to structure code for features that communicate with AI systems and handle offline scenarios.
• Working knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming. You will use these to write efficient code for processing hundreds of millions of requests and to solve technical problems during feature development.
• Experience integrating mobile applications with RESTful APIs or backend services. You will connect iOS features to backend systems that power driver communication and AI-assisted workflows.
• Experience using AI agent-assisted coding tools and spec-driven development workflows to design, implement, and validate software changes. You will use these tools to build features more efficiently and maintain code quality.
• Experience with unit testing or integration testing for iOS applications. You will write tests to ensure features work correctly, especially for offline functionality and network-resilient components.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience building offline-capable or network-resilient mobile features.
• Familiarity with mobile storage technologies such as Core Data, SQLite, Realm, or similar.
• Experience with unit testing, UI testing, or automated testing in iOS.
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, release processes, or mobile observability tools.
• Interest in AI, LLM-powered applications, chatbots, or conversational product experiences.
• Experience with GraphQL, WebSocket, gRPC, or real-time communication features.
• Familiarity with large-scale mobile applications or modular mobile architectures.
• Experience working in cross-functional or regional teams.

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.