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On Grab’s Identity (IAM) team you will be building the best breed registration, authentication and authorization system for all user participants in the Grab ecosystem tailored for SEA markets. This includes Grab services as well as external partner scenarios. Your mission will be to deliver authentication mechanisms that provide strong proof of user identity while minimizing user friction, accommodating mobile, web and voice environments. 

We take pride in building distributed systems that have a real impact on the lives of millions of users in our endeavor to out-serve the underserved population. Terms such as Idempotency, CAP theorem, Distributed Consensus are not just theoretical terms for us but have a real bearing on the systems we build.

Get to know the Role

As a leader in an exciting and dynamic industry that is evolving daily, we are seeking talented Mobile Engineers to join our team!  As part of this role, you will be responsible for building app authentication experiences that are secure and as frictionless as possible for our users. You will be working on world class authentication and authorization systems that are regionally compliant, and adhere to stringent security, fintech and other regulatory standards. 

The Day-to-Day Activities

• Collaborate with the product, business, and program management team to be on top of your deliverable.

• Participate in technical and product review meetings.

• Focus on timely delivery of high-quality, maintainable, and operationally excellent code and test code using Java/Kotlin for Android.

• Participate in code review and design reviews.

• Be part of on call rotation and support the application in production

• You make an impact by delivering a fault free and secure experience to millions of daily users of the platform, also enabling our partners to earn their business income through the app.

The Must-Haves

• 3+ years of experience in building large-scale, highly available mobile applications

• Strong Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms, data structures and generic programming/system design.

• Experience running a large scale Android mobile app with API based backends.

• Good understanding of the Android OS fundamentals 

• Possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills, able to think critically of the current system in terms of growth and stability

• History of effectively working with and growing geo-distributed partner teams.

• Excellent working knowledge of the mobile app development life cycle and best practices

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject

The Nice-to-Haves

• Exposure to NDK and JNI would be a plus.

• Prior knowledge and exposure to application security, encryption algorithms, hashing schemes, experience building security products would be a plus

• Knowledge of authentication and authorisation standards and protocols like SAML, OAuth2, OIDC, FIDO etc would be a plus. 

Our Commitment

We are committed to building diverse teams and creating an inclusive workplace that enables all Grabbers to perform at their best, regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity or sexual orientation and other attributes that make each Grabber unique.

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Equal opportunity

Grab is an equal opportunity employer. We owe our success to the talents of our globally-diverse team and the varying perspectives they add to our thriving community.

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