Software Engineer, Backend (AI)

Get to Know the Team

Applied AI Team is a group of passionate engineers committed to architecting crafting and maintaining internal tooling systems frameworks and platforms that elevate the very core of our business operations. With unyielding we create functional applications that not only enhance productivity but also redefine efficiency for Grab employees. Join us in this journey as we pioneer the future of technology pushing the boundaries of whats possible to shape Grabs success.

Get to Know the Role

As a Software Engineer on our team you will be the technical backbone of LLM-Kit Grabs framework for building deploying and monitoring LLM and agentic applications and the standard starting point through which teams across the organization ship AI products. You will build the libraries scaffolding and CLI that give engineers a paved road from empty repo to a production LLM service: pre-configured FastAPI project structure a default ReAct agent with MCP integration GrabGPT connectivity Vault-backed secret management auth helpers guardrails built-in observability and evaluations wired in out of the box.

You will report to the Engineering Manager and work onsite at the Grab Office.

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

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Develop Framework Features End-to-End

Independently build complex library and tooling features agent and MCP integrations scaffolding templates CLI subcommands config and secret management auth helpers guardrails and evaluation hooks from conception through release and adoption.

• Design Clean and Composable Abstractions

Design the abstractions teams build on: clean composable interfaces over LangChain LangGraph FastAPI and MCP adapters.

• Build Well-Architected Python Libraries and CLIs

Build well-architected Python libraries and CLIs (and Go where it fits Grabs tooling) with rigorous packaging and dependency hygiene on uv strict semantic versioning backwards compatibility guarantees and consistent API conventions across the SDKs.

• Implement Quality and Governance Layers

Build and operate the platforms quality and governance layers: OpenTelemetry distributed tracing and Datadog metrics baked into generated services structured logging Vault secret injection OIDC/workload-identity authentication prompt-level guardrails against common adversarial attacks.

• Ensure Framework Reliability and Support

Ensure the framework is for the teams that depend on it. Participate in on-call and support rotations triage breakages in scaffolding dependency and deployment paths conduct root cause analysis and be part of post-mortems.

Qualifications :

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• 2 years of professional software development experience with a history of delivering successful solutions. Fresh Graduates are welcome.
• Proficiency in server-side programming specifically Python and Golang.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs (Large Language Models) LangChain and LangGraph for conversational AI development.
• Practical experience with cloud providers (AWS) containerization (Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Grasp of data structures algorithms distributed systems and multi-threading.
• An advocate for automated testing (unit integration) and writing concise technical documentation.
• Experience with a relational database such as MySQL PostgreSQL or Oracle

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.

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