Senior Software Engineer

Get to Know the Team

GrabX is the centralized platform for managing product configurations and running experiments at Grab. It allows users to control how products behave for different users regions and conditions without the need for code deployments. This flexibility ensures that product teams can iterate quickly and safely on configurations enhancing the overall user experience. The platform is designed to accelerate Grabs product rollout velocity while maintaining positive benefits for consumers and ensuring that business performance remains unaffected. By decoupling configuration from code GrabX empowers teams to make data-driven decisions and optimize product impacts through controlled experiments.

Get to Know the Role

Were looking for Senior Software Engineer to join our growing engineering team in this role youll take ownership of designing building and maintaining critical software systems that power our internal experimentation platform and serve millions of users across the region. Youll work on highly visible business-critical features while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions that drive business impact. This is an opportunity to grow as a technical leader mentor junior engineers and shape the future of our engineering organization.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Design and build scalable maintainable solutions that support platform growth and reliability
• Deliver well-tested code and uphold engineering standards across the team
• Collaborate with product design and backend teams to turn business needs into solutions
• Improve system performance reliability observability and engineering quality through optimization and refactoring
• Contribute to technical design architecture and code reviews
• Troubleshoot production issues and implement measures to strengthen system reliability
• Mentor junior engineers through guidance and knowledge sharing
• Use data and experimentation to improve technical decisions customer experience and business outcomes
• Participate in on-call rotations and own incident response and resolution
• Stay current with industry practices and technologies bringing ideas to the team

Qualifications :

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• 5 years of professional experience building production systems at scale
• Strong software engineering fundamentals system design architecture and scalability expertise
• Proficiency in modern languages such as Go Sparks or Java and relevant frameworks
• Experience building and maintaining complex distributed systems at scale
• Knowledge of performance optimization reliability testing and debugging best practices
• Experience designing and integrating APIs and backend services
• Understanding of secure coding and security-first system design
• Solve ambiguous problems with pragmatic high-quality solutions
• Strong collaboration skills in cross-functional teams
• Product mindset with a focus on user experience and customer needs
• Experience with experimentation instrumentation and data-informed development
• Familiarity with modern development tools CI/CD and cloud platforms such as AWS GCP or Azure
• Explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and supporting team development

Preferrable Skills

• Experience with database design and optimization microservices or containerization
• Background in payments FinTech authentication or other high-trust products
• Contributions to open-source projects or technical thought leadership
• 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.
• 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