Senior Engineering Manager, AI & Fulfillment

Grab; Jakarta Pusat; On-site; IDR 350,000,000 - 600,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Term Life Insurance

Medical Insurance

GrabFlex benefits

Parental leave

Birthday leave

LASA volunteering leave

Grabber Assistance Programme

Flexible working hours

Job summary

Grab is seeking an engineering manager to lead a team of software engineers building and operating fulfilment capabilities. You will enable the team to deliver reliable outcomes, mentor senior contributors, and align product priorities with an effective engineering roadmap.

The role requires hands-on fluency in engineering while empowering others to drive architecture and decisions. This position reports to the Senior Software Engineering Manager and follows a 5-day in-office arrangement.

Qualifications

• Eight+ years in software engineering, with production systems scale.
• Two+ years in people management of software engineers.
• Experience with LLM and generative AI solutions.
• Knowledge of AI risk, privacy, security, reliability, latency, and cost.
• Strong backend, distributed systems, APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a team of software engineers, setting clear expectations and individual growth plans.
• Define priorities, roadmaps and measurable outcomes with Product, Data Science, Analytics and Operations.
• Own planning and delivery of the team’s engineering roadmap, managing dependencies and risks.
• Work with senior engineers to establish sound architectural direction and trade-offs.
• Improve the reliability, scalability, security, observability and cost efficiency of the systems owned by the team.
• Establish engineering practices covering design reviews, testing, deployment, incident response and continuous improvement.
• Create an inclusive environment with clarity, psychological safety and meaningful ownership.
• Attract, assess and retain strong engineering talent while contributing to hiring and talent development.
• Communicate progress, risks and decisions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Software engineering

Team management

LLM AI

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

APIs

Cloud infra

Communication skills

Tools

LLM integration

Prompt design

LLM tooling

Cloud platforms

Job description

Grab is seeking an engineering manager to lead a team of software engineers building and operating fulfilment capabilities. You will enable the team to deliver reliable outcomes, mentor senior contributors, and align product priorities with an effective engineering roadmap.

The role requires hands-on fluency in engineering while empowering others to drive architecture and decisions. This position reports to the Senior Software Engineering Manager and follows a 5-day in-office arrangement.