Lead Backend Engineer (Go) - Scale Systems & Lead Teams

GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd.; Jakarta Pusat; On-site; IDR 350,000,000 - 600,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Term Life Insurance

Medical Insurance

GrabFlex benefits package

Parental leave

Job summary

GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd. is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to guide the CX Engineering team in building scalable back-end services using Go. The role is onsite in Jakarta and involves leading projects through full life cycles, mentoring peers, and collaborating with product and infrastructure teams.

You will own end-to-end lifecycle, design scalable architectures, review code, and contribute to performance improvements across our platform powering Grab's marketplace.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/Eng or related field.
• 5+ years in software engineering in distributed systems.
• Strong CS fundamentals in algorithms and data structures.
• Willingness to work with Go (Golang).
• Experience with performance scaling and optimization.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product lifecycle, including backend services, APIs, databases, and CI/CD workflows.
• Design and implement services using Go to improve availability, latency and scalability.
• Participate in code and design reviews to uphold high standards.
• Assist with capacity planning, performance analysis, and tuning.
• Collaborate with product and experience teams to define feature specs and prototypes.
• Partner with other teams to create scalable architectures.
• Work with infrastructure on service scaling and root-cause analysis.
• Design, build, and fix large-scale systems.
• Participate in on-call rotations and provide technical guidance.

Skills

Golang

Distributed systems

Algorithms & data structures

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering / IT or related field

Job description

GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd. is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to guide the CX Engineering team in building scalable back-end services using Go. The role is onsite in Jakarta and involves leading projects through full life cycles, mentoring peers, and collaborating with product and infrastructure teams.

You will own end-to-end lifecycle, design scalable architectures, review code, and contribute to performance improvements across our platform powering Grab's marketplace.