Engineering Manager II, Business Applications

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At Grabber Technology Solutions (GTS) we revolutionise the technology experience for every Grabber. Our mission is to empower our team with seamless and solutions that enhance their daily work. We are a diverse group of forward-thinkers committed to creating personalised IT experiences. If youre passionate about customer-centric innovation and on technology at Grab come join us and help shape the future of technology!

Get to Know the Role

Reporting to the Head End User Computing you will lead the Business Applications Engineering team responsible for building and operating AI-enabled enterprise applications and internal platforms. As the teams people and technical leader you will manage team health engineering capability delivery outcomes technical direction and production quality. Working with Product GTS stakeholders and partners you will translate product priorities into reliable systems while creating an environment where engineers can deliver independently learn quickly and improve continuously.

Your success means building an empowered team that delivers measurable business value and operates reliably while establishing and improving the teams agentic engineering harness.

This role is onsite based in our Petaling Jaya Malaysia office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

You will lead through people technical direction and delivery ownership.

• Build and develop a engineering team by setting clear expectations coaching team members fostering psychological safety and creating an inclusive culture.
• Set the teams engineering strategy goals and technical quality bar leading architecture design and code reviews.
• Partner with Product to shape the roadmap define success measures run planning cycles and create clear execution plans with ownership milestones risks and dependencies.
• Lead delivery of AI-first applications and internal platforms from design through production adoption support and continuous improvement.
• Establish the teams agentic engineering harness and reusable engineering foundations. Continuously improve these foundations including development workflows tool use service architecture APIs event contracts data access identity evaluation testing and deployment.
• Own reliability and responsible engineering practices across the team including observability availability security privacy data governance cost management on-call readiness incident response and postmortems.

Qualifications :

What Essential Skills You Will Need

You will bring people leadership software engineering fundamentals technical judgement and delivery ownership.

• You will have 8 years of software engineering experience and experience managing or leading software engineers.
• You will have hands-on experience designing and operating enterprise applications APIs integrations and distributed systems.
• You will have experience owning production reliability observability security incident response and continuous improvement for software systems.
• You will have experience planning and delivering engineering roadmaps using clear goals milestones metrics risk management and dependency management.
• You will have experience hiring coaching developing and managing the performance of engineers while building healthy and inclusive teams.
• You will have experience using agentic engineering tools such as Cursor Claude Code or Codex and applying emerging technologies to improve engineering productivity and product delivery.
• You will be able to communicate complex technical ideas and align Product Engineering business and partner teams around shared outcomes.

Nice to haves skills

• Experience building internal enterprise applications business platforms service management tools or workflow automation.
• Experience with SaaS replacement platform migration vendor consolidation or reducing technology dependency.
• Experience designing AI-enabled applications agentic systems or MCP-based integrations.
• Experience with platformisation reusable services developer productivity tooling or engineering enablement systems.
• Experience leading distributed teams or managing staffing and capacity across multiple technical disciplines.
• Experience establishing engineering standards reusable patterns or development practices adopted by multiple teams.

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 family commitments physical and mental impairments or disabilities and other attributes that make them unique.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time