Back End Engineer

Talent Search Recruitment - Indonesia; Jawa Barat; On-site; IDR 200.000.000 - 300.000.000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology recruitment agency in Indonesia is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and implement scalable backend services in Jakarta. The right candidate will have over 5 years of experience in backend development, strong expertise in Java or Go, and familiarity with microservices architecture and cloud platforms. This is a full-time onsite role with great benefits including medical insurance and flexible work arrangements.

Benefits

Term Life Insurance

Comprehensive Medical Insurance

Flexible work arrangements

Parental and Birthday leave

Volunteering leave

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in backend software development.
• Strong proficiency in backend programming languages.
• Experience with database systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop backend services using Java.
• Collaborate on new features and optimize performance.
• Participate in code reviews and mentoring.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

RESTful APIs

Microservices

SQL

NoSQL

Cloud platforms

CI/CD practices

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

Showing 24 Back End Engineer jobs in Jakarta Selatan

Job Description

Requirements:

• Have experience as a Backend Developer min 2 years in NodeJS development
• Willing to be placed in SCBD (WFO)
• Minimum Bachelor degree of Technology Information
• Familiarity with database systems such as MySQL, MongoDB, or similar
• Strong problem‑solving skills and attention to detail
• Being available to join ASAP will be a plus point

Job Description

Company Description

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

At GrabKios, we empower the people of Southeast Asia, from consumers and drivers to everyday entrepreneurs, by enabling financial inclusion for the underserved. The team is building innovative solutions by enabling commerce through payment services (checkout, payments platform, grab pay products, rewards), empowering through Lending (driver & merchants), empowering through agents (Kios) & protecting users through Insurance (scenario insurance).

Get to Know the Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer specializing in Backend development to join our innovative team in Jakarta, Indonesia. You will be reporting to an Engineering Manager. This will be an onsite role based in Jakarta.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Design and implement scalable backend services and APIs
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to define and implement new features
• Optimize existing systems for improved efficiency and reliability
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to best practices and coding standards
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the team's technical growth
• Stay up‑to‑date with emerging technologies and industry trends

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
• 5+ years of experience in backend software development
• Strong proficiency in backend programming languages such as Java, Python, or Go
• Extensive experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture
• Expertise in designing and implementing RESTful APIs and GraphQL
• Solid understanding of cloud platforms like AWS or Google Cloud
• Experience with both SQL and NoSQL database systems
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
• Proven track record of building scalable and high‑performance systems
• Experience in fintech or e‑commerce industries

Additional Information

Life at Grab

• 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 identity, sexual orientation, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.

Job Description

Company Description

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

At GrabFin, we empower the people of Southeast Asia, from consumers and drivers to everyday entrepreneurs, by ensuring financial inclusion for the underserved. The team is building solutions by enabling our partners (i.e. drivers and merchants) to get access to financial services (lending and insurance) products for their everyday needs.

Get to Know the Role

We are looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer specializing in Java to join our engineering team in Jakarta, Indonesia. As a key member of our engineering department, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining robust backend systems that power our cutting‑edge applications. You will be reporting to an Engineering Manager. This is an onsite role based in Jakarta.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Architect and implement scalable, high‑performance backend services using Java and related technologies
• Design and develop RESTful APIs to support frontend applications and third‑party integrations
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Optimize application performance and improve system efficiency
• Implement and maintain database schemas, ensuring data integrity and security
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to the improvement of our development practices
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve complex software issues
• Mentor junior developers and contribute to the team's technical growth
• Stay up‑to‑date with emerging trends and technologies in backend development

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in backend development using Java
• Strong proficiency in Java programming and related frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot, Hibernate)
• Extensive experience in designing and implementing RESTful APIs
• Solid understanding of database systems (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and SQL
• Proficiency in working with version control systems, preferably Git
• Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems
• Excellent debugging and troubleshooting abilities
• Proficiency in writing unit tests and ensuring code quality
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Knowledge of containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Experience with performance tuning and optimization of Java applications

Additional Information

Life at Grab

• 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.

Job Description

Company Description

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

Come join the Consumer Experience (CX) Engineering team - we work on a diverse set of consumer problems spanning across core experiences that power the UX navigation and transaction funnels, search and discovery of content and services, user lifecycle covering user growth, engagement and loyalty and the critical platform mission of mobile application developer experience. We are on an exciting mission to connect consumers to Grab's marketplace by allowing them to discover and engage with Grab's services and partners.

Get to Know the Role

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to take part of the CX Team. You will be responsible for ensuring high quality deliverables, spanning across multiple key services powering end to end user journeys going from the login screen to the home and activity pages of the Grab app. You will be reporting to the Engineering Manager for this role. This is an onsite role based in Jakarta.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Design and write with the cutting edge Go language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab's range of services
• Work with engineering team to explore and create new design / architectures geared towards scale and performance
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards
• Engage 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 closely with infrastructure team in building and scaling back‑end services as well as performing root cause analysis investigations
• Design, build, analyze and fix large‑scale systems
• Pro‑actively debug and solve production incidents during your on‑call shift
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship and knowledge sharing to peers.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or related fields
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering in a distributed systems environment
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures
• Familiarity with running large scale web services; understanding of systems internals and networking
• Strong understanding of system performance and scaling
• You can be a good coder in any language (C++, C, Java, Scala, Rust, Haskell, OCaml, Erlang, Python, Ruby, PHP, Node.JS, C# etc.), but willing to work on Golang

Additional Information

Life at Grab

• 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 identity, sexual orientation, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.

Job Description

Company Description

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 Transaction Platform team develops and optimises Grab's Order Platform that supports the fast‑growing Transport, GrabFood, and GrabMart business across online and offline channels. We adopt a microservice architecture on the backend and use multiple frontend techniques (e.g. IOS, ADR, Flutter, and Web) to serve our end users (e.g. Consumers, Drivers, Merchants, and Partners) across 8 countries. We generalise our microservices into platforms to improve the speed of the market of new products. We follow a system principle, in which systems keep improving upon different feedback signals without human intervention

Get to Know the Role

We're looking for individuals who are passionate about technology and good at teamwork. Grab's mission is to "Drive Southeast Asia forward". If you want to join us and solving real‑world problems that millions of people face across the region, we'd love to talk to you and find out more. You will be reporting to the Manager. You will be based onsite in Grab Jakarta Office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Develop with the latest GO language to enhance the availability, scalability, and efficiency of Grab's services.
• Participate in code and design reviews to uphold high development standards and deliver quality software.
• Involve in capacity planning and performance optimization to boost system performance and user experience.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve designs and architectures for scalability and performance.
• Partner with the infrastructure team to build back‑end services while ensuring system stability and quick issue resolution.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• You have a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related fields, with at least 5 years of experience in a similar role.
• Solid Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures
• Understanding of system performance and scaling, with experience optimising system performance.
• Proficiency in GO language, with the ability to write efficient and scalable code.
• Experience building software systems for delivery business or order systems, indicating familiarity with the domain and its unique challenges.

Additional Information

Life at Grab

• 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, race, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.

Job Description

Company Description

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

We are looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to take part of the CX Team. You will be responsible for ensuring high quality deliverables, spanning across multiple key services powering end to end user journeys going from the login screen to the home and activity pages of the Grab app. You will be reporting to the Engineering Manager for this role. This is an onsite role based in Jakarta.

Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Design and write with the cutting edge Go language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab's range of services.
• Work with engineering team to explore and create new design / architectures geared towards scale and performance.
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards.
• Engage 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 closely with infrastructure team in building and scaling back‑end services as well as performing root cause analysis investigations.
• Design, build, analyze and fix large‑scale systems.
• Pro‑actively debug and solve production incidents during your on‑call shift.
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship and knowledge sharing to peers.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or related fields.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering in a distributed systems environment.
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures.
• Familiarity with running large scale web services; understanding of systems internals and networking.
• Strong understanding of system performance and scaling.
• You can be a good coder in any language (C++, C, Java, Scala, Rust, Haskell, OCaml, Erlang, Python, Ruby, PHP, Node.JS, C# etc.), but willing to work on Golang.

Additional Information

Life at Grab

• 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 identity, sexual orientation, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.