Senior Backend Lead, AI-Driven Merchant Platform

PT Solusi Transportasi Indonesia; Jakarta Pusat; Hybrid; IDR 2,702,216,000 - 3,422,807,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Term Life Insurance

Medical Insurance

GrabFlex

Parental leave

Birthday leave

LASA volunteering leave

Grabber Assistance Programme

FlexWork arrangements

Job summary

Grab is seeking an experienced Lead Software Engineer, Backend for the Business Platform. You will own and scale backend services, design robust microservices, and partner with stakeholders to deliver merchant tools via the GrabMerchant ecosystem.

The role emphasizes reliability, security, and performance at scale. Join a distributed team across Indonesia and Singapore, and mentor engineers while exploring Generative AI integrations and cutting-edge data tooling to empower merchants and drive

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Python and/or Go.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining distributed backend architectures and microservices.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, Redis caching, and message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Strong RESTful API design, service-to-service communication (gRPC).
• Cloud deployment on AWS, GCP, or Azure with CI/CD practices.
• Familiarity with Generative AI apps and AI Agent workflows (LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex).
• Knowledge of RAG pipelines and vector databases (Pinecone, Milvus, Qdrant, pgvector).

Responsibilities

• End-to-End System Ownership: design, build, and operate high-quality software systems that are secure and reliable.
• Architectural & Operational Excellence: apply advanced patterns and ensure post-deployment monitoring and health.
• Strategic Stakeholder Partnership: collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across the product lifecycle.
• Process Optimization: identify and improve team workflows for efficiency and delivery.
• Mentorship & Team Growth: mentor junior engineers and foster continuous learning.

Skills

Python

Go

Distributed backend

Microservices

RESTful API design

gRPC

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Generative AI

RAG pipelines

Tools

Redis

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Pinecone

Milvus

Qdrant

pgvector

LangChain

LangGraph

LlamaIndex

Job description

Grab is seeking an experienced Lead Software Engineer, Backend for the Business Platform. You will own and scale backend services, design robust microservices, and partner with stakeholders to deliver merchant tools via the GrabMerchant ecosystem.

The role emphasizes reliability, security, and performance at scale. Join a distributed team across Indonesia and Singapore, and mentor engineers while exploring Generative AI integrations and cutting-edge data tooling to empower merchants and drive