Senior Backend Platform Engineer – Scale & Microservices

GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd.; Jakarta Pusat; On-site; IDR 420,000,000 - 660,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

GrabFlex benefits

Term Life Insurance

Medical Insurance

Parental leave

Birthday leave

LASA volunteering leave

Grabber Assistance Programme

FlexWork - differentiated hours

Job summary

Grab is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer in Jakarta, Indonesia to design, build, and evolve backend platform services that manage business profiles and configurations. You will influence how enterprises operate at scale across Southeast Asia, owning end-to-end delivery and ensuring reliable operations.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in backend/platform engineering, deep knowledge of distributed systems, and hands-on experience with Go/Java/Kotlin, cloud platforms, containers, and data-driven

Qualifications

• 5+ years in backend/platform engineering with high-scale production systems.
• Strong proficiency in Go, Java, or Kotlin.
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and data modeling.
• Experience with cloud platforms and containerization, plus observability.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural design of microservices and high-throughput APIs.
• Diagnose performance bottlenecks and ensure low latency across distributed systems.
• Own end-to-end delivery from design docs to production features.
• Drive code quality through reviews, reliability standards, and mentoring.
• Oversee cloud infra (AWS/GCP/Azure), CI/CD pipelines, security, and incident management.

Skills

Backend engineering

Go/Java/Kotlin

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Containers (Docker/Kubernetes)

CI/CD pipelines

Databases (SQL/NoSQL)

Messaging (Kafka/RabbitMQ)

Git version control

SaaS / e-commerce domain

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Git

CI/CD tools

Job description

Grab is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer in Jakarta, Indonesia to design, build, and evolve backend platform services that manage business profiles and configurations. You will influence how enterprises operate at scale across Southeast Asia, owning end-to-end delivery and ensuring reliable operations.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in backend/platform engineering, deep knowledge of distributed systems, and hands-on experience with Go/Java/Kotlin, cloud platforms, containers, and data-driven