Software Engineer, Backend

Get to know the team

The Fulfillment tech family is one of the pillars allowing Grab to out-serve our customers and partners in different businesses and marketplaces across Southeast Asia. We are working on high throughput, real-time distributed systems that use advanced software engineering techniques to solve hundreds of millions of requests per day. We are a distributed team in 5 different locations: Singapore, Beijing, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Romania.

You will be reporting to the Senior Software Engineering Manager, Fulfilment.

Our mission is to offer the best products and experiences to our driver partners as to increase adoption and engagement of our services. Improve driver partner opportunities and efficiency to fulfill customer orders without fail, rain or shine. And to create efficient marketplaces by determining an price that is both sustainable and loved by our partners

Get to know the role

We are looking for a Software Engineer, Backend to join our Fulfilment Platform Engineering Team. We are looking for a candidate with experience in cloud engineering, system design and architecture, and infrastructure automation and integration, always delivers high-quality code, and is willing to guide junior engineers. This role is required because we are revamping our operational fundamentals to improve the automation and efficiency of market operations. In return, you will work with a great team on complex architectures and business.

This role will be base onsite at our South Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Design and write with the Go language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab'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
• Participate 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 with the infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services and performing root cause analysis investigations
• Develop, analyze, and fix large-scale systems
• Debug and solve production incidents during your on-call shift
• Participate in interview loops to help Grab continue hiring top industry talent
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and knowledge sharing to peers.