Senior Backend Engineer - Lending Platform (Golang)

Grab; Indonesia; On-site; IDR 180,000,000 - 420,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Term Life Insurance

Medical Insurance

GrabFlex benefits

Parental leave

LASA volunteering leave

Flexible work hours

Job summary

Grab is seeking a senior backend engineer for its Lending team in Indonesia to design, build, and operate scalable services powering end-to-end lending journeys across multiple markets.

You will collaborate with Product, Data, and Ops to deliver high-quality features on a Kubernetes-based platform, driving reliability, performance, and secure data handling. The role emphasizes mentoring and contributing to CI/CD, testing, and documentation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering in a distributed systems environment.
• Strong CS fundamentals in data structures and algorithms.
• Proficiency in at least one modern backend language (Golang/Java/C#/Python) and willingness to use Golang.
• Hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience building REST/gRPC services in a microservices/cloud environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend services powering end-to-end lending journeys.
• Deliver features across origination, decisioning, servicing, and repayments.
• Collaborate with Product, Risk, Data, and Ops to ensure high quality and compliance.
• Enhance CI/CD, testing, docs, and coding standards within the team.
• Mentor engineers and assist in interviews and technical assessments.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Golang / Java / C++ / C# / Python

Relational & NoSQL databases

REST/gRPC in microservices

End-to-end delivery

Tools

Kubernetes

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Job description

Grab is seeking a senior backend engineer for its Lending team in Indonesia to design, build, and operate scalable services powering end-to-end lending journeys across multiple markets.

You will collaborate with Product, Data, and Ops to deliver high-quality features on a Kubernetes-based platform, driving reliability, performance, and secure data handling. The role emphasizes mentoring and contributing to CI/CD, testing, and documentation.