Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

• Team Engineering
• Location Jakarta, Indonesia
• Job Type Full-time

The role at a glance

Get to Know the Team

The Lending team at Grab is focused on building safe, secure, and adaptable loan products that serve diverse user segments across Southeast Asia. Our mission is to guide financial inclusion and empower underbanked partners across the region. We design and operate critical platform components such as the Loan Management System, Repayments Engine, and Product Flow Orchestrator—powering seamless and reliable lending experiences at scale. Our work involves building large-scale distributed systems that impact millions of users, with a emphasis on reliability and scalability. Core engineering principles like idempotency, CAP theorem, and distributed agreement meaningfully contribute to how we architect and evolve our systems. At our core, we are driven by impact—creating financial solutions that make a meaningful difference in people's lives.

Get to Know the Role

You will design, build, and operate backend services that power end‑to‑end lending journeys – from origination and decisioning to servicing and repayments – across multiple markets.

You will work closely with product managers, designers, data and Ops teams to deliver high‑quality features, drive operational excellence, and mentor other engineers. This role is based in Indonesia with close collaboration across distributed teams in Asia.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Design and implement backend services that are robust, scalable, observable, and cost‑efficient, primarily in Golang and running on our Kubernetes‑based platform.
• Own end‑to‑end delivery of features and projects: requirements clarification, design, implementation, testing, rollout, and post‑launch monitoring.
• Participate in and lead technical discussions and design reviews, making clear trade‑offs that balance reliability, latency, throughput, and cost.
• Drive operational excellence: instrument services with metrics, logs and traces; define SLIs/SLOs; improve alerting; perform capacity planning and performance tuning; and handle production incidents during on‑call rotations.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams (Product, Risk, Data, Mobile, QA, Compliance) to design end‑to‑end lending flows that are safe, compliant, and user‑centric.
• Contribute to engineering excellence by improving our CI/CD, testing, documentation, and design standards within the team.
• Mentor and guide other engineers, providing constructive code review feedback and sharing best practices in design, coding, and OE.
• Support hiring by participating in interviews and helping improve our question banks, guidelines, and job descriptions.

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What Essential Skills You Will Need

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience in a distributed systems environment, with experience with shipping and operating production services at scale.
• Computer science fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and design of large‑scale systems.
• Solid experience with at least one modern backend language (e.g. Golang, Java, C++, C#, Python) and a willingness to work with Golang.
• Hands‑on experience with relational databases (e.g. MySQL/PostgreSQL) and familiarity with NoSQL/streaming technologies (e.g. Kafka, DynamoDB, Redis) or equivalents.
• Experience building and operating REST/gRPC services in a microservices or service‑oriented architecture on a major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Demonstrated experience for end‑to‑end delivery, including production quality, performance, and reliability.

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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