Senior Backend Engineer - Scale Microservices (Jakarta)

Grab; Jakarta Pusat; On-site; IDR 360,000,000 - 720,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Term Life Insurance

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 the Business Platform team in Jakarta, Indonesia. You will design, build, and evolve backend platform services for business profiles, metadata, and configurations, enabling enterprise onboarding and operations at scale across Southeast Asia.

The role emphasizes ownership, system design thinking, and building scalable platforms, with on-site work in Jakarta. Expect mentorship of engineers and strong collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in backend/platform engineering with high-scale production systems.
• 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; version control (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

System design thinking

Mentoring engineers

Communication

Tools

AWS/GCP/Azure

Docker/Kubernetes

CI/CD

Git

SQL/NoSQL

Kafka/RabbitMQ

Job description

Grab is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Business Platform team in Jakarta, Indonesia. You will design, build, and evolve backend platform services for business profiles, metadata, and configurations, enabling enterprise onboarding and operations at scale across Southeast Asia.

The role emphasizes ownership, system design thinking, and building scalable platforms, with on-site work in Jakarta. Expect mentorship of engineers and strong collaboration across teams.