Senior Software Engineer, Backend

This role is onsite based in our Petaling Jaya, Malaysia office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You will design and write with the state of the art Go language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab's range of services
• You will have a thorough understanding of how to deploy performant cloud based backend services
• You will participating in both code and design review
• You will end-to-end development of your team's products including ownership of the team's infrastructure using Terraform, building and scaling fullstack solutions, designing efficient web interfaces and performing root cause analysis investigations
• You will be part of on-call for your team's products and services, and participate in post-mortems for any incidents
• You will work with product managers, data analysts and product designers to implement products and features, and test their impact to business metrics.
• You will working in a regional organization with offices across different countries and cultures and facilitating collaborating across these different teams.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• You have at least 5 years experience in software development.
• You have computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, multithreading and distributed systems, relational and non-relational databases
• You have proficient in at least one language commonly used for backend services development (C#, Java, C++, C), but willing to work on Golang and Rails
• You have shows a understanding of cloud infrastructure with hands-on experience.

Nice-to-haves:

• You have familiarity with running large-scale web services and understanding of systems internals and networking
• You have hands-on experience with Go programming language
• You have hands-on experience with Ruby (Rails)
• You have hands-on experience with AWS/Azure
• You have hands-on experience with Flink/Kafka
• You have hands-on experience with GraphQL

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.