Backend Software Engineer

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.

Get to Know the Team

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 you're 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

The Software Engineer will contribute to the Business Applications Engineering team's work on Grab's next generation of AI-first applications and internal platforms.

You will contribute throughout the technical delivery journey, from solution design and implementation through production delivery, adoption, support and continuous improvement. It uses the team's agentic engineering harness and AI-assisted development practices to build secure, reliable, and observable systems.

You will be reporting to Head of Business Integration.

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

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform:

• You will build and maintain features, services, integrations, and automations for internal enterprise applications and platforms.
• You will contribute to reusable foundations for agentic applications, including APIs, event contracts, data access, identity, permissions, auditability, and human escalation paths.
• You will apply testing, evaluation, observability, security controls, and operational guardrails throughout the development and delivery lifecycle.
• You will build prototypes and production code to validate new ideas, resolve technical uncertainty, and accelerate delivery.
• You will write readable, maintainable, and well-tested code, and participate in technical design discussions and code reviews.
• You will support production delivery, monitoring, incident investigation, documentation, and continuous improvement.
• You will identify repetitive work and propose automation or AI-enabled improvements that increase team productivity.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• You have experience developing and testing production software using at least one modern programming language.
• You understand APIs, databases, software design fundamentals, and system dependencies.
• You have experience writing automated tests and applying software quality practices.
• You can investigate issues, read logs, improve monitoring, and support production systems.
• You can explain your technical work clearly and collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• You have experience engaging with agentic engineering tools (e.g. Cursor, Claude Code, Codex) and emerging technologies to enhance productivity, improve workflows, and contribute new ideas.

Really nice to haves skills

• Experience with workflow automation, service management, or enterprise applications.
• Experience building AI-enabled features or working with MCP and similar system connectors.
• Experience with cloud services, CI/CD, observability, or production support.
• Experience working on internal tools or products used by multiple teams.

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.