Lead Software Engineer, Backend

Get to Know the Team
The Lending team builds secure versatile loan products for diverse user segments managing important platform components like the Loan Management System Repayments Engine and Product Flow Orchestrator. We create distributed systems that impact millions with a focus on underserved communities. Concepts like Idempotency CAP theorem and Distributed Agreement are important to the systems we develop.
 

Get To Know The Role
We are looking for a passionate Lead Engineer with the required skills and more to join our team. You will have opportunities to design develop and maintain backend components. You will collaborate with the product business and programme management teams to ensure deliverables. You will also adopt and advocate software engineering best practices for larger teams including code reviews static analysis feature-flagging and semantic versioning of internal APIs. A significant part of your role will involve the design and architecture of backend systems. You will report to an Engineering Manager.
Workplace Type: This role will be onsite and based in the Singapore office.
 

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You will propose and lead technical improvements that inspire creativity enhance system performance and improve efficiency across the team.
• Contribute to technical and product review meetings offering valuable insights and providing constructive feedback.
• Deliver high-quality maintainable and reliable code taking ownership of the entire development process.
• Collaborate with SRE and DevOps teams to manage scalable and reliable infrastructure improving.
• Participate in on-call rotation maintaining by addressing system issues and ensuring a smooth uninterrupted operations.
• Lead projects ensuring clear understanding among all partners updates and resolutions to customers and partners and taking responsibility for successful outcomes.

Qualifications :

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Bring 10 years of experience in a relevant field contributing valuable expertise to the team.
• Build robust backend systems including DBMS caches NoSQL web and app servers.
• You will use your proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java or Golang while applying strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals like data structures algorithms and operating systems.
• You will demonstrate proactivity creativity and a keen ability to balance the needs of product engineering and business.
• You will use your experience with web technologies and distributed systems to build scalable and reliable solutions.
• Add value with your experience in building consumer-facing products.
• Contribute your knowledge of developing OLTP systems and performance.
• Experience deploying code in AWS Azure or Google Cloud environments

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 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 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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time