Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer Experience)
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
Come join the Consumer Experience (CX) Engineering team - we work on a diverse set of consumer problems spanning across core experiences that power the UX navigation and transaction funnels, search and discovery of content and services, user lifecycle covering user growth, engagement and loyalty and the critical platform mission of mobile application developer experience. We are on an exciting mission to connect consumers to Grab's marketplace by allowing them to discover and engage with Grab's services and partners.
Get to Know the Role
We are looking for passionate developers who not only have the necessary skills but also offer more, to become part of our team. You will collaborate with the product, business, and program management teams to ensure delivery of your work. You will directly report to the Senior Software Engineering Manager. You will work fully on-site in our Jakarta office.
The Critical Tasks You Will Perform
- You use technology to solve well defined problems, building individual components or features based on well defined tasks.
- You understand the requirements of your projects and use that understanding in your designs.
- You understand your codebase and systems, ensuring reliability through design reviews, monitoring, alerting, and applying OE (Operational Excellence) standards.
- You take ownership of your code and ensure it's readable, maintainable, and well-tested.
- You understand and apply the appropriate data structures and algorithms.
- You give clear, actionable feedback during code reviews and respond well to feedback from others.
- You respond promptly to issues and keep the working team constantly updated. Your tasks are delivered on time and with high quality, and you're able to explain your solutions to other technical stakeholders through both verbal and written communication.
Qualifications
What Essential Skills You Will Need
The Must-Haves
- You can write clean code in any language Golang, Java, Scala, Python, Ruby, PHP, Node.JS, C#, etc.)
- Ability to write functionally correct, modular, readable and maintainable code
- Awareness of basic security concepts
- Understanding of common data structures and common algorithms
- A good understanding of the clean architecture principles
Tech Stack
- Our core services tech stack consists of Golang with Redis, MySQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch data stores as well as HAProxy load balancers. They all run on the AWS cloud infrastructure with auto-scaling abilities.
- Our mobile app platform coverage includes native iOS, Android, written in Swift, RxJava and Flutter. Our Command Center front-end is built on Rails, HTML5, CSS and Javascript.
- We use GitHub for our code repository and we adhere to the basic Continuous Delivery tenets utilising a host of tools to support our release pipeline and code quality. These include GitLab CI, DataDog, Terraform, MEKS etc
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 provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.