Senior Backend Engineer – Scale Payments Platform (Jakarta)

Grab; Jakarta Pusat; On-site; IDR 300,000,000 - 540,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Term Life Insurance

Medical Insurance

GrabFlex

Parental leave

Birthday leave

LASA volunteering leave

Grabber Assistance Programme

FlexWork hours

Job summary

Grab is seeking an experienced backend engineer for the Financial Services Payments team in Jakarta. You will design and scale backend services powering payments across Southeast Asia, take ownership of complex problems, and mentor peers. Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will work from the Jakarta office.

The role emphasizes Go programming, distributed systems, and collaboration with product, data, and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable checkout experiences.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 6+ years of software engineering with backend experience.
• Proficiency in Go and distributed backend systems.
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases and Redis.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and operation of scalable backend services.
• Translate product requirements into technical solutions.
• Ensure high-quality code via testing, observability, and reviews.
• Collaborate with product, data, infrastructure, and other teams.
• Improve reliability with monitoring and incident response.
• Participate in on-call rotations and production ownership.
• Mentor engineers and drive process improvements.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

SQL/NoSQL databases

English communication

Agile cross-functional work

Debugging and performance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Redis

SQL databases

NoSQL databases

Job description

Grab is seeking an experienced backend engineer for the Financial Services Payments team in Jakarta. You will design and scale backend services powering payments across Southeast Asia, take ownership of complex problems, and mentor peers. Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will work from the Jakarta office.

The role emphasizes Go programming, distributed systems, and collaboration with product, data, and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable checkout experiences.