Lead Backend Engineer (Go) — Scalable Systems Leader

Grab; Jakarta Pusat; On-site; IDR 600,000,000 - 1,200,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Term Life Insurance

Medical Insurance

GrabFlex benefits package

Parental and Birthday leave

LASA volunteering leave

Grabber Assistance Programme

FlexWork differentiated hours

Job summary

Grab is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for the Consumer Experience backend. This role will be based onsite in Jakarta and reports to Engineering Manager II. You will lead projects through full lifecycle, solve cross-team dependencies, and drive high-impact initiatives with Go.

You will own designs, review code, and mentor peers while ensuring scalable, reliable services that power Grab's consumer experiences and marketplace connectivity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or related fields.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience in distributed systems.
• Strong CS fundamentals in algorithms and data structures.
• Understanding of system performance and scalability.
• Willingness to work with Golang.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product lifecycle across backend services, databases, APIs and CI/CD.
• Design and implement features in Go to improve availability, scalability, latency and efficiency.
• Participate in code and design reviews to uphold high development standards.
• Contribute to capacity planning, performance analysis, tuning and optimization.
• Collaborate with product and experience teams to define feature specifications and prototypes.
• Partner with other engineering teams to create scalable architectures and designs.
• Work with infrastructure team to scale services and perform root-cause analysis.
• Design, build, analyze and fix large-scale systems.
• Participate in on-call rotations and provide technical mentorship to peers.

Skills

Golang

Distributed systems

Mentorship

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering/IT

Job description

Grab is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for the Consumer Experience backend. This role will be based onsite in Jakarta and reports to Engineering Manager II. You will lead projects through full lifecycle, solve cross-team dependencies, and drive high-impact initiatives with Go.

You will own designs, review code, and mentor peers while ensuring scalable, reliable services that power Grab's consumer experiences and marketplace connectivity.