Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Grab
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
The team is a dynamic and diverse backend team, responsible for maintaining and enhancing systems within Grab's Content Engines. This includes developing features for the Catalog and User-Generated Content (UGC) platforms, which are important to the delivery services in the Grab superapp
Get to Know the Role
By joining the team you will get a chance to work with the best engineers in the region. You will be reporting to Software Engineering Manager II. You will create a high impact when your work reaches millions of customers. You will get a chance to work on scalable services which can process tens of millions of orders daily. Each service is carefully designed keeping in mind all the possible failures and fallback solutions to ensure we are always running to serve our customers.
This role is onsite based in our Hồ Chí Minh office
The Critical Tasks You Will Perform
- You will work with the product and design team to understand requirements, provide product feedback, own and implement the product from start to finish.
- You will create and participate in technical discussions with other engineering teams.
- You will write code that is reusable, scalable and testable. Make sure products are delivered on time and with high quality.
- You will collaborate with QAs to make sure all product requirements are met and the deployments are stable.
- You will review code from other team members, provide constructive feedback and aim to raise the engineering bar.
- You will improve the codebase. Propose and set better engineering solutions for the team.
- You will be responsible and responsive during on-call duty. Debug and troubleshoot production issues
Qualifications
What Essential Skills You Will Need
- You have a Bachelor in Computer Science or equivalent. Good Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures.
- You will have at least 5+ years of experience in software engineering in a distributed systems environment
- You have experience shipping products (like web applications or backend services) to production.
- You can be a good coder in any language but willing to work on Golang
- You have knowledge of cloud technologies and experience developing and deploying services on the cloud
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.