Senior Backend Platform Engineer - Scale Microservices

Grab; Jakarta Pusat; On-site; IDR 600,000,000 - 900,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Grab in Jakarta, Indonesia is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Business Platform team. You will design, build, and evolve backend platform services that manage business profiles, store metadata, business configuration, and related workflows to support onboarding and scale across Southeast Asia.

This onsite role requires ownership and system design thinking, working near the source of truth for business data, and mentoring mid/junior engineers while delivering reliable production

Qualifications

• 5+ years in backend/platform engineering with high-scale production systems.
• Proficiency in Go, Java, or Kotlin.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, service-oriented architecture, microservices, APIs, data modeling, and eventual consistency.
• Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, caching, and observability.
• SQL/NoSQL databases, event-driven architectures, and messaging (Kafka/RabbitMQ).
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills; Git proficiency; SaaS or e-commerce domain experience; mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead 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 design documents to deploying and maintaining production features.
• Drive code quality across the team through high-bar code reviews, 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

Cloud/AWS/GCP/Azure

Docker/Kubernetes

CI/CD

SQL/NoSQL

Kafka/RabbitMQ

Git/version control

Mentoring engineers

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Grab in Jakarta, Indonesia is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Business Platform team. You will design, build, and evolve backend platform services that manage business profiles, store metadata, business configuration, and related workflows to support onboarding and scale across Southeast Asia.

This onsite role requires ownership and system design thinking, working near the source of truth for business data, and mentoring mid/junior engineers while delivering reliable production