GRAB

Lead Software Engineer, Backend

Singapore · On-site · Full-time

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EmployerGRAB
LocationSingapore
Work styleOn-site
Employment typeFull-time
Employer posted21 days ago

Get to Know the Team

Grab For Business team is building the solutions used by enterprise customers and employees to access Grab offerings such as ride hailing, food deliveries, gift cards and more. We are a team built with transparent and stay informed about relevant technology trends and developments, striving for building the products that our users love to use everyday. In next year, we have goals to expand our customer segments, offer richer user experience and contribute more to the success of Grab.

Get to Know the Role

You will work with other experienced engineers on the team to develop our backend services, ensure the robustness and of the system which provides APIs used by several mobile and web app. You will be reporting to an engineering manager who is based in Singapore. You will work onsite in Singapore.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

Lead the design, and operation of scalable, maintainable, and reliable backend services and platform components.
Convert product and requirements into technical solutions while driving design discussions and architectural trade-offs.
Oversee the delivery of high-quality code by maintaining standards in testing, performance, observability, and rigorous code reviews.
Partner with product, business, mobile, web, data, and infrastructure teams to solve end-to-end-user and system challenges.
Improve service reliability through monitoring, proactive system health fixes, incident response, and root cause analysis.
Participate in the team's on-call rotation and take active ownership during production incidents.
Guide engineers through technical coaching, design reviews, and knowledge sharing.
Identify and guide ongoing improvements in engineering processes, developer productivity, and overall system health.

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What Essential Skills You Will Need

You have a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
You have 7+ years of software development experience and a history of delivering successful solutions across teams.
You have proficiency in Go. You write idiomatic, testable, and maintainable code.
You have hands-on experience writing and operating backend microservices. You are familiar with HTTP/gRPC, relational databases (MySQL) and NoSQL databases (Redis). You have a working knowledge of container orchestration (Kubernetes), service mesh (Istio), and observability (DataDog, Kibana, Grafana).
You understand how developers use version control and CI/CD to collaborate on a codebase and ship software (Git, 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
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 enables diverse Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique

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