Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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 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. You will be reporting to Senior Software Engineering Manager. We are working on high throughput, real-time distributed systems that use advanced software engineering techniques to solve hundreds of millions of requests per day. We are a distributed team in 4 different locations: Singapore, Beijing, Indonesia, and Malaysia.

Our mission is to provide exceptional products and experiences to our driver-partners, with the goal of increasing adoption and engagement across our services. We are committed to enhancing their earning potential and operational efficiency, allowing them to fulfill customer orders under all conditions.

Get to Know the Role

• Responsible for developing and maintaining the back-end system of the million-user-scale supply search platform, ensuring stable operation and efficient response of the platform.
• Conduct in-depth analysis of data related to driver choice, explore influencing factors, and optimize drivers' decision-making paths and order matching strategies through technical means.
• Participate in system architecture design and performance optimization, and solve technical challenges in high-concurrency and large-data-volume scenarios.
  
  

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

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You will design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Golang within a microservices architecture.
• You will collaborate with teams, including front-end developers, product managers, and QA engineers, to understand project requirements and create high-quality software solutions.
• You will write clean, maintainable, and efficient code, and conduct thorough code reviews to ensure code quality and adherence to software development best practices.
• You will improve existing backend systems for improved performance and scalability.
• You will troubleshoot and resolve complex backend issues and system failures, ensuring resolution to minimize impact on production environments.
• You will collaborate with DevOps teams to automate deployment, monitoring, and scaling of backend services on AWS.
• You will stay up-to-date with industry trends, latest technologies, and best practices in backend development, and recommend improvements to enhance our software development processes and stability.
  
  

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• You need to have solid software engineering and coding skills. Specifically, we're looking for someone with at least 4+ years of experience in a backend language like Go, Scala, Java or C++. You can be a good coder in any language but must be willing to work on Golang
• 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 have experience with relational databases, such as MySQL, is important and NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB).
• You have knowledge of software development best practices. This includes version control (specifically Git), unit testing, and continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• You familiar with open source search engine, familiar with Lucene, Elasticsearch
• You have hands-on experience with performance profiling, optimization, and debugging of backend systems.
• You have hands-on experience working with AWS infrastructure
  
  

Additional Information

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.