Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Grab; Jakarta Pusat; Hybrid; IDR 350,000,000 - 600,000,000; 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 in Jakarta is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Wallet Cash-In/Cash-out Experience payments team on-site. You will help drive architectural advancements, design backend components, and collaborate with engineers, product managers, and business owners to move fast and deliver reliable payment services.

The role requires at least 6 years in backend engineering, strong Go or Java skills, and experience with microservices, GRPC, REST, Kafka, SQS, and observability tools like Datadog.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Go or Java and core languages.
• Experience with RDBMS and unit testing (JUnit/Go Testify).
• Strong grip on idempotency, CAP theorem, distributed systems.
• Observability tooling experience (Datadog).
• Experience with microservices, gRPC, REST, Kafka, SQS in payment domains.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural advancements within payments backend.
• Design backend components for new features.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, debugging and tuning.
• Propose and implement new features and architectures.
• Collaborate with business owners and product managers on design.
• Respond to incidents and maintain service uptime on call.

Skills

GoLang

Java

Backend engineering

RDBMS

Unit testing

Distributed computing

Idempotency

Observability Datadog

Microservice architecture

GRPC

REST API

Kafka

SQS

CAP theorem

OOP design

Tools

Datadog

GRPC

Kafka

SQS

REST API

Job description

About Grab and Our Workplace

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.

Get to Know the Team

Wallet Cash-In/Cash-out Experience team plays a crucial role in powering liquidity for Grab, providing seamless and smooth experiences for millions of customers across Southeast Asia. Our mission is to allow anyone, including the unbanked, to access digital cash quickly and affordably. Whether it's topping up wallets or cashing out funds, our systems ensure transactions happen smoothly.

Get to Know the Role

We are looking for a passionate Senior Backend Engineer with the required skills and more to join our payments team. You will offer exciting challenges, including the opportunity to lead groundbreaking architectural advancements. You will have opportunities to design backend components. You'll report to the Software Engineering Manager II. The working arrangement for this role is on-site.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You will work within the payments covering Wallet Cash-In/Cash-out Experience, helping improve product engineering vision.
• Build services that delight our customers through active participation in discovery sessions, continuous R&D
• Explore and utilize Generative AI to enhance workflows and accelerate development velocity.
• You will participate in code reviews, testing, debugging, performance tuning, and capacity planning
• You will propose and implement new features, algorithms, and architectures for platform enhancements that enable other developers to work at high velocity.
• You will design new features alongside business owners, engineering managers, and product managers
• You will be required to participate in incident investigation, resolve production issues to ensure minimal downtime as part of On-call responsibilities to ensure we continue to provide optimal service uptime and delight customers with continued service availability

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• 6 years of experience in backend engineering
• Solid software engineering and coding skills, with proficiency in GoLang, Java or other core programming languages
• Experience with RDBMS, unit testing with JUnit, Go Testify, or any other mock frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with an In-depth understanding of Idempotency, CAP theorem, Distributed computing, and OOP design principles.
• Experience with observability tooling, e.g., Datadog or any tooling of similar utility.
• Experience working with large-scale payment processing systems
• Experience with Microservice architecture, GRPC, REST API, Kafka, SQS

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.