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Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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Your applicationOpen nowSenior Software Engineer, BackendGrab · Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

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Early applications get read.

12.9% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. Grab postings stay open a median of 18 days.

Share of postings closed within
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  4. 21.0%14 days
  5. 35.6%30 days
  6. 58.5%60 days
This job: posted 5 days ago

Grab median: 18 days open

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Company Description

About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Job Description

Get to Know the Team

The Fulfilment tech family is one of the most important pillars ensuring Grab to out-serve our customers and partners in different businesses and marketplaces across Southeast Asia. We are working on high throughput, real-time distributed systems that use machine learning techniques to solve hundreds of millions of requests per day.

Our mission is to offer the best products and experiences to our driver partners as to increase adoption and engagement of our services. Improve driver partner opportunities and efficiency to fulfil customer orders without fail, rain or shine. And to create efficient marketplaces by determining a price that is both sustainable and loved by our partners and customers.

Our team members are in Indonesia and Singapore.

Get to Know the Role

We are seeking experienced and passionate Software Engineers to join our team. You will have opportunities to lead a small team of software engineers to work on multiple backend service clusters. It is very important that our team members to initiatively identify problems and have the right mindset and skills to solve them.

You will be reporting to Software Engineering Manager II, Backend and the role will be base onsite in our Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

  • Develop and maintain backend services and APIs with a focus on reliability and scalability.
  • Write efficient database queries (e.g., MySQL, Presto) and optimize system performance through profiling and troubleshooting.
  • Contribute to projects on cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and support deployments via CI/CD pipelines.
  • Implement and maintain automated testing (unit, integration, and end-to-end) to ensure code quality.
  • Gain exposure to distributed computing frameworks such as Apache Flink, while building services in Golang and Scala.
  • Collaborate with senior engineers and cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality technical solutions.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

  • More than 4 years of experience in backend development.
  • Familiarity with large-scale distributed web or API services, including systems internals and networking.
  • Hands-on experience with databases and query languages such as MySQL or Presto.
  • Strong understanding of system performance, with ability to profile and resolve bottlenecks.
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), testing frameworks (unit, integration, E2E), and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Hands-on experience using any language and willing to work on Golang and Scala (Flink)

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 life's challenges.
  • Balancing personal commitments and life's 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.

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