Tuyển dụng Senior Software Engineer, Backend

The role at a glance

Skills you need

What we offer

Life at Grab

The role at a glance

Get to Know the Team

At Business Platform, our goal is to make merchants happy, and help them thrive in their business. We support all merchants, between tiny merchants (like a warung or hawker) and big, international franchises. Merchants have a lot of different businesses: restaurants, supermarkets, fashion, online stores, people who sell on social media, and many more. We level the playing field between tiny merchants and big merchants by giving them the same tools to grow their business, to attract customers, to become more efficient and be able to concentrate on what they do best inside one GrabMerchant App and Portal. If you go to a restaurant, chances are high you have seen some of the products of our team already.

Get to Know the Role

We are seeking talented & passionate engineers to join our team, you will have opportunities to work on multiple backend services as well as participating in merchant immersions, talking directly to the end-users, identifying their challenges and how we can help them in their work life. It is very important that our team members to identify problems, and have the right mindset and skill sets to solve them.

You will be reporting to the Senior Software Engineering Manager and will be based onsite at our Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

End-to-End System Ownership

Independently designs, builds, and operates high-quality software systems, ensuring they are secure, reliable, maintainable, and rigorously tested.

Architectural & Operational Excellence

Applies advanced architectural patterns and infrastructure best practices, while maintaining accountability for post-deployment monitoring and system health.

Strategic Stakeholder Partnership

Collaborates effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, actively contributing to the entire product lifecycle from initial design to final rollout.

Process Optimization

Proactively identifies and implements improvements to team workflows and engineering processes to enhance overall efficiency and delivery.

Mentorship & Team Growth

• Acts as a senior by mentoring junior engineers and fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional development within the team.
• Skills you need
• What Essential Skills You Will Need
• You need to have solid software engineering and coding skills. Specifically, we're looking for someone with at least 5 years of experience in a backend language like Go, Scala, Java or C++.
• You understand building microservices architecture and a good grasp of distributed systems, RESTful APIs, and message queuing systems. Your knowledge in these areas will develop our back-end services.
• Experience with relational databases, such as MySQL, is important. You'll work with databases so familiarity with how they work and how to work with them is important.
• You have knowledge of software development best practices. This includes version control (specifically Git), unit testing, and continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• You should have experience deploying code in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud environments
• You may help build front-end applications. This means you need to be comfortable working with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Your skills in these areas will directly contribute to the enhancement of our user interfaces.
• What we offer
• 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.
• Life at Grab
• 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.
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