Intern Software Engineer Backend

Get to Know the Team

Grab is Southeast Asias leading superapp. We provide everyday services such as deliveries mobility financial services enterprise services and others to millions of users across the region. You will be reporting to Software Engineering Manager II. At the Experimentation Platform Team we help Grabs internal services to manage their product configurations and experiment with those configurations to improve. The problem space we are working on consists of making product configuration management & experimentation easy and efficient for Grabs internal services. We are looking for software engineers to join the team to help us make that vision a reality by developing and innovating the experiment platform.

Get to Know the Role

This is a handson role involving building a scalable and resource efficient cutting edge software platform. You will build a available scalable and resource efficient experimentation platform to drive realworld impact in Grabs services that consists of tens of thousands of consumers drivers and merchants.

You have a background in software engineering with proficiency in GoLang MySQL database REST APIs. Experience developing memory and CPU efficient software solutions is a bonus. You are expected to have understanding of software development lifecycle and engineering practices.

You will report to Software Engineering Manager II. This is a paid internship role and is based onsite in Petaling Jaya.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You will be part of design development and launch of new features of the experimentation platform using GoLang MySQL DB S3 and REST APIs.
• You will be part of end to end software development lifecycle of software application including coding testing reviewing & deployment.
• You will participate in code and design reviews with the team to maintain high engineering standard practices.
• You will participate in oncall rotations with the team to support platform users. Help to troubleshoot mitigate and resolve issues reported by users.
• You will identify ways to enhance the platforms performance capabilities and user experience.
• You will write technical documents such as RFCs RCAs
• You will work with crossfunctional teams to understand their needs and optimize solutions.

Qualifications :

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• You will need to start the internship in July 2025 with a minimum duration of 3 months.
• You have a bachelors degree in computer science software engineering information technology or related fields
• You have understanding of engineering practices and design patterns. Experience writing efficient readable maintainable and testable code in programming language in GoLang.
• Proficiency in Golang with understanding of goroutines and go libraries.
• You have experience with MySQL database and writing complex and efficient queries.
• You have proficiency of working with VCS such as git git flows deployment strategies etc.

Additional Information :

Life at Grab

We care about your wellbeing 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 LoveallServeall (LASA) volunteering leave
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through lifes challenges.
• Balancing personal commitments and lifes 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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Intern