Lead Software Engineer, Backend - Consumer Experience

PLT Engineering; Jakarta Utara; On-site; IDR 450,000,000 - 850,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Grab is seeking a Lead Software Engineer, Backend, for its Consumer Experience team in Jakarta. You will own end-to-end backend systems, primarily using Go, to power CX experiences across the marketplace.

The role requires leadership, strong design skills, and collaboration with product, data, and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable, reliable services with an emphasis on performance and on-call excellence. This is an onsite position in Jakarta.

Qualifications

• Experience leading projects through full lifecycle.
• Strong backend design and Go programming expertise.
• Proven ability to design scalable, high-performance services.

Responsibilities

• Own a wide range of backend problems across product lifecycle including APIs and data storage.
• Design and write Go-based services to improve availability, latency, and efficiency.
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain high development standards.
• Contribute to capacity planning, performance analysis, and optimization.
• Collaborate with product and experience teams to define feature specs.
• Partner with other engineering teams to craft scalable architectures.
• Work with infrastructure to build and scale backend services.
• Design, build, analyze, and fix large-scale systems.
• Participate in on-call rotations and share knowledge with peers.

Skills

Go language

Leadership

Backend development

Code reviews

CI/CD

Job description

Lead Software Engineer, Backend - Consumer Experience

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 enabling them to seamlessly discover and engage with Grab's services and partners.

Get to Know the Role

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer who can not only write high-quality code daily but also has the determination to lead projects through the full life cycle while dealing with cross-team dependencies & ambiguities. You will be reporting to Engineering Manager II. You are required to help identify problems and adopting the right mindset and skills to solve them.

This role will be based onsite in Jakarta

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You will take ownership of a wide range of engaging problem spaces that encompass the entire product lifecycle management, including front-end development, database design and management, data visualization, building APIs, and CI/CD management, among others.
• You will design and write with the Go language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Demand team's range of services.
• You participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards.
• You will participate in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning, and optimization.
• You collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications.
• You will partner with other engineering teams to explore and create new designs / architectures geared towards scale and performance.
• You will work with the infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services and performing root cause analysis investigations.
• You are responsible for designing, building, analyzing, and fixing large-scale systems.
• You will participate in the team on-call rotation to help us achieve operational excellence.
• You will provide technical guidance, mentorship, and knowledge sharing to peers.