Senior Backend Engineer — Scalable Payments Platform

Grab; Jakarta Pusat; On-site; IDR 390,000,000 - 740,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Term Life Insurance

Medical Insurance

GrabFlex benefits

Parental leave

Birthday leave

LASA volunteering leave

Grabber Assistance Programme

FlexWork arrangements

Job summary

Grab is seeking a senior backend engineer to design and deliver scalable systems powering payments and other financial services in Southeast Asia. You will own complex problems end-to-end, drive high-quality execution, and mentor teammates in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

The role is based in Jakarta and reports to the Engineering Manager. You will work with cross-functional teams to build reliable platforms used by millions of users and merchants across the region.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of software engineering experience, with backend development experience in production environments.
• Proficient in one or more programming languages such as Go, and have computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and distributed systems.
• Experience designing, building, and operating distributed backend systems at scale.
• Solid experience working with SQL/NoSQL databases, caching systems such as Redis, and asynchronous or event-driven architectures.
• Debugging, troubleshooting, and performance optimization skills.
• Proficiency in communicating in English
• You work in Agile environments and collaborate well across departments.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and operation of scalable backend services and platform components.
• Translate product requirements into technical solutions and guide design discussions.
• Ensure high-quality code through testing standards, performance, observability, and code reviews.
• Collaborate with product, business, mobile, web, data, and infrastructure teams to solve end-to-end challenges.
• Improve service reliability via monitoring, health fixes, incident response, and root cause analysis.
• Participate in on-call rotation and own production incidents.
• Mentor engineers through coaching, reviews, and knowledge sharing.
• Drive improvements in engineering processes and system health.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Backend development

SQL/NoSQL

English communication

Agile environments

Education

Computer Science degree

Job description

Grab is seeking a senior backend engineer to design and deliver scalable systems powering payments and other financial services in Southeast Asia. You will own complex problems end-to-end, drive high-quality execution, and mentor teammates in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

The role is based in Jakarta and reports to the Engineering Manager. You will work with cross-functional teams to build reliable platforms used by millions of users and merchants across the region.