Senior Software Engineer, Android

Grab; Jakarta Selatan; On-site; IDR 320,000,000 - 520,000,000; 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 a Senior Android Engineer for the MiniApp Platform to own the Android side of the ecosystem, build reusable SDKs, and drive parity with iOS across Southeast Asia.

You will work with backend, QA, product, and partner teams to deliver reliable, scalable mobile platform solutions, while mentoring engineers and improving reliability and security across Grab apps.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Kotlin and Android SDK.
• Experience designing or maintaining mobile SDKs or platform components.
• Knowledge of Android app architecture, lifecycle, concurrency, networking and performance.
• Understanding of API design, versioning, backward compatibility, testing strategy, and release management.
• Hands-on testing (unit/integration/instrumentation) and CI/CD for Android apps or SDKs.

Responsibilities

• Improve Android SDK reliability, performance, security, observability, and backward compatibility across Grab app releases.
• Drive parity between Android and iOS by defining cross-platform contracts and experiences.
• Collaborate with backend engineers on Horus services, authentication, scopes, and telemetry.
• Build automated tests, release tooling, sample apps, and documentation for faster partner integrations.
• Investigate production issues, strengthen monitoring, and contribute to incident response improvements.
• Partner with product, design, QA, and partner teams to translate requirements into scalable mobile platform solutions.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, code reviews, and mentoring.

Skills

Kotlin

Android SDK

Mobile SDKs

System architecture

Testing (unit/integration)

CI/CD for Android

Security/Observability

Mentoring/Leadership

Job description

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Job Description

Get to Know the Team

The MiniApp Platform team builds the technology that enables internal teams and external partners to create and operate MiniApps within the Grab ecosystem. We own the mobile SDKs, native entry points, backend integrations, developer tooling, reliability foundations, and self-service capabilities that help partners move from integration to production safely and quickly.

Get to Know the Role

As a Senior Android Engineer, you will own and evolve the Android side of the MiniApp platform. You will build reusable SDK and native capabilities, improve parity across Android and iOS, and help the platform scale from managed partner integrations toward a governed developer ecosystem. You will work with iOS, backend, full-stack, QA, product, and partner-facing teams to deliver reliable experiences used across Southeast Asia.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Improve SDK reliability, performance, security, observability, and backward compatibility across Grab app releases.
• Drive Android and iOS capability parity by defining clear cross-platform contracts and developer experiences.
• Partner with backend engineers on Horus services, authentication, scopes, transaction capabilities, telemetry, and other platform integrations.
• Build automated tests, release tooling, sample applications, and technical documentation that make partner integrations faster and safer.
• Investigate production issues, strengthen monitoring and failure handling, and contribute to incident response and post-incident improvements.
• Collaborate with product, design, QA, and partner teams to translate requirements into scalable mobile platform solutions.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and continuous improvement of engineering standards.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• At least 5 years of professional Android development experience, with proficiency in Kotlin and the Android SDK.
• Experience designing or maintaining mobile SDKs, libraries, or platform components used by multiple product teams.
• Knowledge of Android application architecture, lifecycle, concurrency, networking, storage, and performance optimisation.
• Understanding of API design, versioning, backward compatibility, testing strategy, and release management.
• Hands-on experience with unit, integration, and instrumentation testing, and CI/CD for Android applications or SDKs.
• Diagnose complex production issues using logs, metrics, traces, and systematic debugging techniques.
• Collaboration and communication skills, with experience working across mobile, backend, QA, product, and external partner teams.
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction through architecture and high-quality code.
• Experience with mobile security, observability, developer tooling, or large-scale platform ecosystems is an advantage.

Additional Information

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

What We Stand For At Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.