Job Description

Life at Grab: At Grab, every Grabber is guided by The Grab Way, which spells out our mission, how we believe we can achieve it, and our operating principles - the 4Hs: Heart, Hunger, Honour and Humility. These principles guide and help us make decisions as we work to create economic empowerment for the people of Southeast Asia. Get to Know the Team: Come join the Transport Core Engineering team - encompass transporting people from point A to point B. Our goal is to ensure the safest and most reliable transport experience for consumers with the greatest convenience, utility, and value. We are the tech backbone of Grab’s transport business and we drive innovations through an iterative mindset. Get to Know the Role:

• Work with a team of backend engineers to deliver highly scalable and available services and immersive experiences for consumers
• Conceive, analyze, design, build and maintain large-scale systems, ensuring the system is robust, highly optimized for performance, highly scalable, and highly available.
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards
• Work with product managers, data analysts, and UI designers to implement products and test their impact to business metrics
• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization
• Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype features
• Work closely with the infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services as well as performing root-cause analysis investigations
• Conduct performance tuning and optimization
• Debug and modify complex, production software

The Day-to-Day Activities:

• Design and write with the cutting edge GO language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Digibank’s range of services
• Work with the engineering team to explore and create new design/architectures geared toward scale and performance
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards
• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization
• Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications
• Work closely with infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services as well as performing root cause analysis investigations
• Design, build, analyze and fix large-scale systems
• Learn full-stack performance tuning and optimization
• Debug and modify complex, production software

The Must-Haves:

• A degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology or have a similar experience with 4+ years of engineering experience on backend technologies
• Strong computer science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures
• 2+ years experience in Golang, familiarity with running large scale microservices services
• Strong understanding of system performance and scaling
• Excellent communication skills, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills, ability to think critically about system growth and stability
• Familiarity with AWS
• Experience in writing good unit tests
• Conversational English
• A cultural role model with a strong sense of humility and empathy coupled with a bias for action and a passionate commitment to engineering excellence

Our Commitment: We are committed to building diverse teams and creating an inclusive workplace that enables all Grabbers to perform at their best, regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity or sexual orientation and other attributes that make each Grabber unique. About Grab Grab is the leading superapp platform in Southeast Asia, providing everyday services that matter to consumers. Today, the Grab app has been downloaded onto millions of mobile devices, giving users access to over 9 million drivers, merchants, and agents. Grab offers a wide range of on-demand services in the region, including mobility, food, package and grocery delivery services, mobile payments, and financial services across 428 cities in eight countries Join us today to drive Southeast Asia forward, together.