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
GrabLink's core business is providing merchants with payment acceptance services. It's first objective was to become Grab's in-house payment gateway. This removes the need for 3rd-party Payment Service Providers (PSPs) such as Adyen, thereby reducing Grab's cost of funds by millions each year. With its license from MAS and card schemes, GrabLink will also commercialize its operations as an acquirer, with expectations of bringing in significant revenue for GFG
Get to know the role
Design and enhance cutting edge services setting a high standard for availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab's range of products. Build and deploy performant modern web backend services. Work with 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. Work closely with infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services as well as performing root cause analysis investigations. Design, build, analyze and fix large-scale systems. Learn backend service performance tuning and optimization. Debug and modify complex, production software that serve millions of users in Southeast Asia
The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Design and enhance cutting edge services setting a high standard for availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab's range of products.
• Build and deploy performant modern web backend services.
• Work with 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.
• Work closely with infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services as well as performing root cause analysis investigations.
• Design, build, analyze and fix large-scale systems.
• Learn backend service performance tuning and optimization.
• Debug and modify complex, production software that serve millions of users in southeast asia.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Have a strong technical background with 2-4 years of technical experience building APIs.
• Solid understanding of programming principles, financial transaction consistency, and Git version control.
• Strong understanding of software development life cycle and agile methodologies.
• Good problem-solving skills and ability to think analytically.
• Good communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with teammates.
• A continuous learner, open to embracing new technologies and development practices.
• Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different expertise.

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 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.