Life at  Grab

At Grab, every Grabber is guided by The Grab Way, which spells out our mission, how we believe we can achieve it, and our operating principles - the 4Hs: Heart, Hunger, Honour and Humility. These principles guide and help us make decisions as we work to create economic empowerment for the people of Southeast Asia.

Get to know the Team

You will be working with a team responsible for shaping and building Grab’s internal performance management platform. This platform serves to reinforce The Grab Way operating model and enable the continuous learning and growth of every Grabber.

Get to know the Role

As such, we are seeking talented & passionate Engineers to join our team, you will have opportunities to work on multiple backend services as well as webapps. It is very important that our team members take initiative to identify problems and have the right mindset and skillsets to solve them.

The Day-to-Day Activities

• Drive new initiatives, identify opportunities, validate assumptions, and deliver impact

• Design and enhance cutting-edge services in modern web applications setting a high standard for availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab's range of products

• Build and deploy performant modern web applications in Go and Typescript

• Work with the engineering team to explore and create new design/architectures geared towards scale and performance

• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards

• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning, and optimization

• Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications

• Design, build, analyze, and fix large-scale systems

• Learn full-stack performance tuning and optimization

• Debug and modify complex production software that serves all the Grabbers

The Must-Haves

• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

• Strong Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures

• Familiarity with running large-scale web services

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

• Strong programming skills in any programming language but willing to work on Golang

The Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with Go

• Experience with multiple SQL and NoSQL databases

• Experience in working with AWS and Kubernetes

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.