Company Description

About Grab and our workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia’s leading Superapp. We are dedicated to improving the lives of millions of users across the region by providing them everyday services such as deliveries, mobility, financial services, enterprise services and others. More than that, we provide the opportunity for them to have a better life. And that aspiration starts inside Grab because we believe in a seamless blend of work and home life, making every aspect of life better for all.

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—we work to create economic empowerment for the people of Southeast Asia. With our unwavering commitment to our values, we believe that we're more than a service provider; we're agents of positive change.

Job Description

Get to Know the Team

The Lending team is responsible for building safe, secure and versatile loan products for all user segments. We own a range of platform primitive components such as, but not limited to, Loan Management System, Repayments Engine and Product Flow Orchestator to name a few. We take pride in building distributed systems that have a real impact on the lives of millions of users in our endeavour to out-serve the underserved population. Theories like Idempotency, CAP theorem, Distributed Consensus are more than just theoretical terms for us and have real bearings on the systems we build.

Get To Know The Role

We are looking for passionate developers who not only possess the necessary skill sets but also offer more, to become part of our team. In this role, you will have the chance to design, develop, and maintain backend components and services. You will collaborate closely with the product, business, and program management teams to ensure timely delivery of your work. Additionally, you will take on a mentorship role within the team, helping to achieve our collective goals and deliverables.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform:

• Backend Services Management: Design, implement, and manage backend services that impact millions of users.
• Participation in Review Meetings: Actively participate in technical and product review meetings.
• Knowledge-Sharing and Code Reviews: Thrive in an environment that fosters knowledge-sharing and encourages thorough code reviews. Ensure the timely completion of all assigned code and design reviews.
• Code Delivery: Deliver high-quality, bug-free code consistently.
• Collaboration with SRE and DevOps Teams: Collaborate with the SRE and DevOps teams to setup hardware and micro-services infrastructure.
• On-Call Rotation: Participate in the team's on-call rotation to uphold operational excellence.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Need

• Programming and Code Quality: Ability to write clean, functionally correct, modular, readable and maintainable code in any language, with a willingness to learn Golang.
• Computer Science Fundamentals: Strong understanding of common data structures, algorithms, and basic security concepts.
• Architecture and Design Principles: Good understanding of the clean architecture principles and ability to write extensible code for complex projects adhering to SOLID principles.
• Service Development: Familiarity with developing services that serve HTTP Restful API and interact with stream or messaging platforms like Kafka or SQS.
• Cloud Deployment and Distributed Architecture: Familiarity with cloud deployment services, e.g AWS, and exposure to distributed architecture.
• Communication and Teamwork: Strong written and oral communication skills, along with the ability to work in a team and independently.
• Continuous Learning: A continuous desire to learn new things and embrace the latest technologies.

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