Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack

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 Grab Web team owns and manages our public website. We work collaboratively across different functions between Singapore and Malaysia to drive growth and awareness on the web domain across our Consumers, Drivers, Merchants, and Partners. You'll be part of a working group that values quality and strives for continuous improvement through collaboration and new ideas. Our communication is in English, both in spoken and written form.

Get to Know the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work across the entire stack from databases to backend services to our front-end UI. You will be focused on leading initiatives that drive organic web traffic growth and stability of the service. You will also be working on maintaining and improving the quality of the service after launch. You'll collaborate with engineering, product, design and business teams, to help achieve the team's goals.

You will reporting to an Engineering Manager and work onsite at our Malaysia office in Petaling Jaya.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Lead end-to-end feature development and technical decisions
• Build UIs with JavaScript/TypeScript and backend services in Golang
• Write SQL queries and optimize performance
• Design scalable, reliable infrastructure and service architecture
• Improve and shape new technical architecture with a focus on scalability and performance of our services.
• Support non-technical stakeholder requests on our Wordpress CMS.
• When issues arise, you'll conduct root cause analysis investigations to identify and rectify them.
• Debug and make necessary modifications to our production software to ensure that our software is always running smoothly providing a reliable service to our users.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and team members to deliver features.
• Mentor junior developers and conduct code reviews to foster growth.

• A degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology or related fields.
• 3+ years of experience as a Fullstack Software Engineer.
• Experience with web frameworks and tools such as , , Webpack
• Experience with backend development in Golang including API development, Databases, Caching techniques, Queueing frameworks
• Experience with CMS tooling such as Wordpress.
• Understand more complex data structures and algorithms, and recognize when to use them.
• Strong grasp of SOLID principles and ability to write scalable, maintainable code
• Experience designing services using clean architecture
• Proficient in SQL and version control systems
• Familiar with defect tracking tools
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins or GitLab

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.