GRAB

Software Engineer, Backend - FinID

Petaling Jaya, Malaysia · On-site · Full-time

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EmployerGRAB
LocationPetaling Jaya, Malaysia
Work styleOn-site
Employment typeFull-time
Employer posted12 days ago

Get to Know the Team

FinID Engineering Team's goal is to build products and services to enable Grab to be safe and compliant in-accordance to regulatory requirements.

We are a distributed team spread across India, Singapore, Vietnam, and the USA. Our team has direct end-user contact, and influence on the consumers, drivers, merchants and thus, Grab.

Get to Know the Role

As part of the FinID Team, you will have opportunities to work on multiple backend services. You will also participate in consumer immersions, where you will talk directly to end-users, identifying their challenges and how we can help them in their work life.

This role is onsite based in our Petaling Jaya, Malaysia office and you will be reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager.

This is a contract role for 24 months.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

You will use technology to solve well defined problems, building individual components or features based on well defined tasks.
You will understand the requirements of your projects and use that understanding in your designs.
You will understand your codebase and systems, ensuring reliability through design reviews, monitoring, and applying OE (Operational Excellence) standards.
You will take ownership of your code and ensure it's readable, maintainable, and well-tested.
You will understand and apply the appropriate data structures and algorithms.
You will give clear, relevant feedback during code reviews and respond well to feedback from others.
You will respond promptly to issues and keep the working team updated.

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What Essential Skills You Will Need

You have a Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
You have minimum of 2 years of experience writing clean code in any language (C++, C, Java, Scala, Python, Node.JS, C#), and willing to learn Golang.
You have write extensible code for complex projects and, picking the right abstractions that follow SOLID principles.
You have understand more complex data structures and algorithms, and recognize when to use them
You have understanding of the clean architecture principles
You have familiarity in developing services that serves HTTP Restful API
Consume and publish messages from and to any stream platform like Kafka or Messaging platform like SQS
Familiarity with any cloud services, e.g AWS
Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Maven, GitLab
Experience with a relational database such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle

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 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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