Software Engineer, Backend - Business Platform

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

We're looking for a Backend Engineer to join our Business Platform team in Jakarta, Indonesia. The Business Platform powers the backend capabilities that enable businesses and enterprises to onboard, operate, grow, and serve consumers at scale across Southeast Asia.

Get to Know the Role

In this role, you will design, build, and evolve backend platform services that manage business profiles, store metadata, business configuration, and related operational workflows. You'll work on systems that sit close to the source of truth for business data and workflows—systems that directly influence how businesses set up their operations, how internal teams operate reliably, and how downstream products consume trusted business information. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong ownership, pragmatic system design thinking, and a commitment to building platforms that simplify complexity rather than spread it around.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Design, build, and maintain low-latency RESTful/GraphQL APIs and distributed microservices capable of handling heavy traffic loads.
• Schema design, data modeling, and query optimization across relational (e.g., PostgreSQL) and NoSQL/caching databases (e.g., MongoDB, Redis).
• Set up automated monitoring, logging, and tracing to proactively diagnose bottlenecks, maintain security best practices, and resolve production outages.
• Manage automated CI/CD pipelines, containerized environments (Docker/Kubernetes), and cloud services (AWS/GCP/Azure) for smooth, reliable releases.
• Author comprehensive unit/integration tests, participate in code reviews, and write clear technical design documentation to manage technical debt.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• You need to have solid software engineering and coding skills. Specifically, we're looking for someone with at least 2 years of experience in a backend language like Go, Scala, Java or C++.
• You should help build front-end applications. This means you need to be comfortable working with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Your skills in these areas will directly contribute to the enhancement of our user interfaces.
• You understand building microservices architecture and a good grasp of distributed systems, RESTful APIs, and message queuing systems. Your knowledge in these areas will develop our back-end services.
• Experience with relational databases, such as MySQL, is important. You'll work with databases so familiarity with how they work and how to work with them is important.
• You have knowledge of software development best practices. This includes version control (specifically Git), unit testing, and continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

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.