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

This role is based in Petaling Jaya and hybrid

Get to know our Team

As an engineer at Grab, you're at the company's core, impacting millions of lives daily. The ADS Technology team, one of Grab's most promising departments, handles our advertising business, including delivery and marketing. We offer advanced technology advertising solutions, using a microservice architecture for backend development and multiple front-end technologies like iOS, Android, Flutter, and Web to cater to our users - consumers, drivers, merchants, and partners. Operating across seven countries, we aim to enhance businesses' reach and conversion rates through precise advertising marketing strategies. We transform our microservices into platforms to expedite new product launches and follow a system principle that allows system improvement based on feedback signals, without human intervention.

Get to know the role

We are looking for a Software Engineer to help our team in developing scalable solutions for our ads business. You will report to the Engineering Manager. We believe you have experience in go and cloud services, and an ability to work cohesively within a team, but if you believe you have what it takes then we'd love to hear from you either way. This role is required because we're expanding our team and need experienced technical engineer to ensure its success.

This role is based in Petaling Jaya and hybrid

The Critical Tasks You will Perform

• You will design and write using GO language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab's range of services.
• You will be involved in code and design reviews to maintain Grab's development standards.
• You will participate in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization
• You will participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standard
• You will partner with other engineering teams to explore and create new designs/architectures geared towards scale and performance.
• You will work with the infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services and performing root cause analysis investigations.
• You will responsible for designing, building, analyzing and fixing large-scale systems.
• You will debug and modify complex production software

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You will Need

• You will have at least 2 years' experience in software engineering within a distributed systems environment.
• You are well-versed in Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures.You have a sound understanding of system performance and scaling.
• You have solid software engineering and coding skills, with proficiency in any programming language and a willingness to work with GoLang.
• You are familiar in system performance and scaling.

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.

What we stand for at Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that enables diverse Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.