Senior Backend Engineer: Scale Microservices (Go/Java)

GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd.; Jakarta Pusat; On-site; IDR 350,000,000 - 900,000,000; 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 hours

Job summary

GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd. is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Business Platform team in Jakarta, Indonesia.

The role focuses on designing, building, and evolving backend services that manage business profiles, metadata, configuration, and workflows, ensuring data accuracy and operational reliability. This onsite position emphasizes ownership and scalable platform thinking. The successful candidate will drive end-to-end delivery, mentor engineers, and contribute to rapid

Qualifications

• 5+ years in backend/platform engineering.
• Strong proficiency in Go, Java, or Kotlin.
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems, service-oriented architecture, microservices, APIs, data modeling, and eventual consistency.
• Tech Stack: Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, caching, and observability.
• Data & Messaging: SQL/NoSQL databases, event-driven architectures, and messaging systems (Kafka/RabbitMQ).
• Core Competencies: 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 built to handle scale and high availability.
• Diagnose high-stakes performance bottlenecks, refactor core infrastructure, and ensure low latency across distributed systems.
• Own end-to-end delivery of mission-critical systems—from writing technical design documents (TDDs) and scoping projects to deploying and maintaining production features.
• Drive code quality across the team through high-bar code reviews, system reliability standards, and technical mentorship of mid/junior engineers.
• Oversee cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), automated CI/CD pipelines, security protocols, and robust incident management/observability to guarantee strict SLAs.

Skills

Backend engineering

Go

Java

Kotlin

Distributed systems

Microservices

APIs

Data modeling

Eventual consistency

AWS

GCP

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Caching

Observability

Git

SaaS or e-commerce domain experience

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Job description

GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd. is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Business Platform team in Jakarta, Indonesia.

The role focuses on designing, building, and evolving backend services that manage business profiles, metadata, configuration, and workflows, ensuring data accuracy and operational reliability. This onsite position emphasizes ownership and scalable platform thinking. The successful candidate will drive end-to-end delivery, mentor engineers, and contribute to rapid