Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

• Team Engineering
• Location Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
• Job Type Full-time

The role at a glance

Get to know the team

The Fulfillment tech family is one of the pillars enabling Grab to out-serve our customers and partners in different businesses and marketplaces across Southeast Asia. We are working on high throughput, real-time distributed systems that use machine learning techniques to solve hundreds of millions of requests per day. Our mission is to offer the best products and experiences to our driver partners as to increase adoption and engagement of our services. Improve driver partner opportunities and efficiency to fulfill customer orders without fail, rain or shine. And to create efficient marketplaces by determining price that is both sustainable and loved by our partners and customers.

Get to know the role

We are looking for experienced and passionate Engineers to join our team. You will have opportunities to work on multiple backend service clusters and participate in building machine learning pipelines. It is very important that our team members take the initiatives to identify problems and have the right mindset and skill sets to solve them. You will be reporting to Senior Software Engineering Manager.

This role is onsite based in our Petaling Jaya, Malaysia office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You will design and write with the state of the art Go language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab's range of services
• You will have a thorough understanding of how to deploy performant cloud based backend services
• You will participating in both code and design review
• You will end-to-end development of your team's products including ownership of the team's infrastructure using Terraform, building and scaling fullstack solutions, designing efficient web interfaces and performing root cause analysis investigations
• You will be part of on-call for your team's products and services, and participate in post-mortems for any incidents
• You will work with product managers, data analysts and product designers to implement products and features, and test their impact to business metrics.
• You will working in a regional organization with offices across different countries and cultures and facilitating collaborating across these different teams.

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What Essential Skills You Will Need

• You have at least 5 years experience in software development.
• You have computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, multithreading and distributed systems, relational and non-relational databases
• You have proficient in at least one language commonly used for backend services development (C#, Java, C++, C), but willing to work on Golang and Rails
• You have shows a understanding of cloud infrastructure with hands-on experience.

Nice-to-haves:

• You have familiarity with running large-scale web services and understanding of systems internals and networking
• You have hands-on experience with Go programming language
• You have hands-on experience with Ruby (Rails)
• You have hands-on experience with AWS/Azure
• You have hands-on experience with Flink/Kafka
• You have hands-on experience with GraphQL

Read more What we offer

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.

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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.

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Meet the Engineering team

From software developers to security specialists, our people thrive on experimenting with fresh ideas and implementing them for users. Solve real-world problems, find purpose in your work and work across borders to help drive Southeast Asia forward.

Engineering at Grab is synonymous with holding yourself accountable for impacting the lives of millions of partners, be it drivers, passengers or merchants. Every line of code can have a big positive or negative impact on our consumers, which is why every little change requires thorough thought processes and a deep understanding of systems and scale.

“ ” Gaurav KumarSoftware Engineering Manager II

Learning within the Engineering team never stops, especially with the sponsored learning resources. You need to stay curious and be willing to take ownership to join and succeed in the team.

“ ” Zou YunEngineering Manager

Everybody at Grab understands the necessity of balance. We all believe that what we’re doing here is important, we’re genuinely changing people’s lives for the better, but we also understand that this shouldn’t come at the cost of your personal life.

“ ” Akanksha ValechaEngineering Manager II, Fullstack

The Application Process

What can you expect when you apply for a role at Grab? Here’s what our hiring process looks like.

Step 1: Apply.

We have a range of open roles from Marketing to Engineering and everything in between. Find the one that’s best for you and show us why you’re our next teammate.

Step 2: Getting to know you.

Next, you’ll have a video or phone interview with one of our recruiters to chat about you, the role, and your past work experiences.

Step 3: Testing, testing… 123.

Some roles might require assessments and/or a technical competency interview. For other roles, there might be an additional interview – speak with your recruiter for application details.

Step 4: Is it a culture match?

Finally, we’ll find out how we fit together, if your career vision aligns with our mission, how you embody the 4 H's, and your working style and personality.

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