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

The Fulfillment tech family is working on high throughput, real-time distributed systems that use sophisticated machine learning techniques to solve hundreds of millions of requests per day. Our mission is to offer the best-in-class products and experiences to our driver partners as to increase adoption and engagement of our services. Improve driver partner opportunities and efficiency in order to fulfill customer orders without fail, rain or shine. And to create efficient marketplaces by determining an optimal price that is both sustainable and loved by our partners and customers.

Get to Know the Role

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to take part of the Fulfillment Team. You will be responsible for ensuring high quality deliverables. You will be reporting to the Engineering Manager for this role. This is an onsite role based in Jakarta.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable backend services using Golang within a microservices architecture.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including front-end developers, product managers, and QA engineers, to understand project requirements and deliver high-quality software solutions.
• Implement best practices and coding standards to ensure the reliability, performance, and security of our backend systems.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code, and conduct code reviews to ensure code quality and adherence to software development best practices.
• Optimize and enhance existing backend systems for improved performance and scalability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex backend issues and system failures, ensuring resolution to minimize impact on production environments.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to automate deployment, monitoring, and scaling of backend services on AWS.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in backend development, and proactively recommend improvements to enhance our software development processes and stability.

What Essential Skills You Will NeedThe Must-Haves

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer writing production code
• Solid software engineering and coding skills. Experience in at least one backend language like Go, Scala, Java, C++, or others is required. You can be a good coder in any language but must be willing to work on Golang
• Proficiency in building microservices architecture and solid understanding of distributed systems, RESTful APIs, and message queuing systems.
• Experience with relational databases (e.g., MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB).
• Strong knowledge of software development best practices, including version control (Git), unit testing, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Strong communication skills in English, both verbal and written.

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.