Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Grab
Date: 2 weeks ago
City: Petaling Jaya
Contract type: Full time

Company Description
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.
Job Description
Get to Know the Team
The Mobility team is an established team responsible for the ride-hailing module in the Grab app. We improve the core transport booking experience. We are made up of talented and diversified engineers.
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 passengers to increase adoption and engagement of our services. Our team has direct end-user contact, and impact on the bottom line for Grab.
Get to Know the Role
We are looking for an experienced and passionate Software Engineer to join our team. You will be reporting to Senior Software Engineering Manager. You will work on the critical backend services that are used by Grab users to place a ride. You'll also will create amazing passenger app experiences that are used by Grab user to place bookings. We have exciting product ideas and engineering challenges awaiting your participation, and you will be the first one experiencing your own work in the Grab app!
This role is onsite based in our Petaling Jaya, Malaysia office.
The Critical Tasks You Will Perform
What Essential Skills You Will Need
Life at Grab
We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:
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.
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.
Job Description
Get to Know the Team
The Mobility team is an established team responsible for the ride-hailing module in the Grab app. We improve the core transport booking experience. We are made up of talented and diversified engineers.
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 passengers to increase adoption and engagement of our services. Our team has direct end-user contact, and impact on the bottom line for Grab.
Get to Know the Role
We are looking for an experienced and passionate Software Engineer to join our team. You will be reporting to Senior Software Engineering Manager. You will work on the critical backend services that are used by Grab users to place a ride. You'll also will create amazing passenger app experiences that are used by Grab user to place bookings. We have exciting product ideas and engineering challenges awaiting your participation, and you will be the first one experiencing your own work in the Grab app!
This role is onsite based in our Petaling Jaya, Malaysia office.
The Critical Tasks You Will Perform
- You will work with Product/Design/Analytics teams to understand problems, requirements, provide feedback, options, trade offs, and timelines.
- You will collaborate with Android/IOS/Backend/QA/ML Engineers to brainstorm and implement technical solutions that are scalable and addressing the actual problems.
- You will write code that is reusable, scalable and testable. Make sure features are delivered on time and with high quality.
- You will review code and engineering specs, provide constructive feedback and aim to raise the engineering bar.
- You will be responsible and responsive during on-call duty. Triage, debug, mitigate and fix complex issues. Assist on ad hoc queries from other teams.
- You will mentor junior engineers and contribute to the team's overall growth and knowledge sharing
What Essential Skills You Will Need
- You have a total of 5+ years of professional software development experience.
- You have experience with Go programming language.
- You hav e writes extensible code for assigned tasks and pick the right abstractions that follow SOLID principles. Understand data structures and algorithms and recognize when to use them.
- You have good Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures.
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
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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