Senior Backend Architect, Scalable Microservices Platform

Grab; Jakarta Pusat; On-site; IDR 500,000,000 - 800,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life Insurance and Medical Insurance

GrabFlex benefits package

Parental and Birthday leave

LASA volunteering leave

Grabber Assistance Programme

FlexWork arrangements

Job summary

Grab is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Business Platform team in Jakarta, Indonesia. You will design, build, and evolve backend platform services that manage business profiles, store metadata, business configuration, and related workflows, influencing how businesses set up operations on the platform.

The ideal candidate demonstrates ownership, system-design thinking, and a commitment to building scalable, reliable platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in backend/platform engineering with high‑scale production systems.
• Proficiency in Go, Java, or Kotlin.
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems, service‑oriented architecture, microservices, APIs, data modeling, and eventual consistency.
• Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, caching and observability.
• Data & Messaging: SQL/NoSQL databases, event-driven architectures, messaging systems (Kafka/RabbitMQ).
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills; Git proficiency; SaaS or e-commerce domain experience; mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architectural design of microservices, high-throughput APIs, and data storage solutions for scale and availability.
• Diagnose performance bottlenecks, refactor infrastructure, ensure low latency across distributed systems.
• Own end-to-end delivery from design docs to production features.
• Drive code quality through rigorous reviews and reliability standards; mentor engineers.
• Oversee cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, security protocols, and incident management.

Skills

Go

Java

Kotlin

Distributed systems

Microservices

APIs

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Git

Tools

Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Job description

Grab is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Business Platform team in Jakarta, Indonesia. You will design, build, and evolve backend platform services that manage business profiles, store metadata, business configuration, and related workflows, influencing how businesses set up operations on the platform.

The ideal candidate demonstrates ownership, system-design thinking, and a commitment to building scalable, reliable platforms.