Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Fulfillment)

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

As one of the core pillars enabling Grab to out-serve customers and partners across Southeast Asia, the Fulfillment tech family builds high-throughput, real-time distributed systems powered by sophisticated machine learning to process hundreds of millions of requests daily.

Our mission is to deliver best-in-class products and experiences that drive driver-partner adoption and engagement, optimizing their efficiency and earning opportunities so customer orders are fulfilled without fail, rain or shine. By seamlessly balancing these dynamics, we strive to create efficient marketplaces that determine optimal, sustainable pricing loved by both our partners and customers.

Get to Know the Role

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to join our growing engineering team. In this role, you'll design, develop, and maintain robust backend services that power our platform and impact millions of users. You'll work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to build scalable, efficient systems while continuously innovating and improving our technical infrastructure. This is an excellent opportunity to grow your career, mentor teammates, and make a meaningful contribution to our mission.

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

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Design and write with the cutting edge GO language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab's range of services.
• You will contribute to service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standard
• You will explore and create new designs/architectures geared towards scale and performance.
• Work with the infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services and performing root cause analysis investigations.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Background in backend development with a clear architecture mindset.
• Have at least 5 years of experience in backend development with programming skills in Golang
• Experience with programming principles, financial transaction consistency, and Git version control.
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC): Experience with SDLC and Agile methodologies to manage tasks.
• Experience designing scalable and maintainable architectures.
• Experience with a relational database such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle
• Understanding of security best practices and secure coding principles
• Experience using coding agent and ai speed up your daily working including but not limit coding, review, design ETA.

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.