Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Company Description
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.

Job Description
Get to Know the Team
As a Senior Engineer with our AID Techops Development team, you'll be in the vanguard of innovation, ensuring our internal platforms stay on the cutting edge. You'll cover the entire development lifecycle, from design to deployment, with a focus on high-quality code and performance. Plus, there's an opportunity to contribute to back-end development, giving you a comprehensive tech experience. Join us for an exciting journey in digital innovation.

Get to Know the Role
As a market leader in a constantly evolving climate, we are looking for experienced developers to join our team.

• You will solve interesting problems by collaborating with other Engineers, UI Designers, and Data teams.
• You will adopt software engineering best practices for larger teams, including code reviews, ample use of static analysis, feature-flagging, and semantic versioning of internal APIs.
• This role is onsite based in our Petaling Jaya, Malaysia office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Develop AI agents and chatbots using LLMs, LangChain, and LangGraph to enhance driver experiences and solve real-world challenges.
• You will be the most senior member of the team, responsible for leading, mentoring, and providing technical guidance. You will help set technical direction, ensure best practices, and lead the success of projects.
• You will design and write with the cutting-edge GO language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab's services.
• You will collaborate with the engineering team to explore and create new designs/architectures geared towards scale and performance.
• You will support the debugging and modification of complex, production software.
• You will be involved in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards.
• You will participate in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning, and optimization.
• You will collaborate with the infrastructure team and Data Tech team in building and scaling backend services and performing root cause analysis investigations.
• You will build front-end applications using ReactJS.

Qualifications
What Essential Skills You Will Need

• 4+ years of experience as a software engineer writing production code
• You have experience in designing, developing, and implementing large-scale, available online services.
• You have solid Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures
• 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 front-end applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Proficiency in building microservices architecture and understanding of distributed systems, RESTful APIs, and message queuing systems.
• Experience with relational databases (e.g., MySQL).
• Knowledge of software development best practices, including version control (Git), unit testing, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

Additional Information
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.