Software Engineer, Backend

Grab; Jakarta Pusat; On-site; IDR 350,000,000 - 550,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Term Life Insurance

Medical Insurance

GrabFlex

Parental leave

Birthday leave

LASA volunteering leave

Grabber Assistance Programme

Flexible hours

Job summary

Grab is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to join our Fulfilment Platform Engineering Team in South Jakarta, Indonesia. You will design and build scalable Go services, improve reliability, and mentor junior engineers as part of a high‑performance distributed system.

You will work on cloud-native architectures, participate in design reviews, and help automate operations to scale our marketplace. This role requires 3+ years of distributed systems experience and a proactive, collaborative mindset.

Qualifications

• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or related fields.
• 3+ years of experience in software engineering in a distributed systems environment.
• Experience with Golang, including its core syntax, standard library, concurrency primitives, and developing Go applications.
• Proficiency in maintaining operational excellence and site reliability, including performance and capacity planning.
• Strong CS fundamentals in algorithms and data structures.
• Experience with large-scale web services and understanding systems internals and networking.
• Ability to work with multiple languages and be willing to work on Golang.

Responsibilities

• Design and write with the Go language to improve availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of a range of services.
• Collaborate with engineering to explore designs and architectures geared toward scale and performance.
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain high development standards.
• Contribute to service capacity and demand planning, performance analysis, tuning, and optimization.
• Define and prototype feature specifications with product and experience teams.
• Work with infrastructure to build and scale back-end services and perform root cause analysis.
• Develop, analyze, and fix large-scale systems.
• Debug and solve production incidents during on-call shifts.
• Participate in interview loops to help Grab hire top talent.
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Golang

Distributed systems

Cloud engineering

System design

Concurrency

Code reviews

Multiple languages (C++, Java, etc.)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Software Engineering

Information Technology

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

DynamoDB

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

The Fulfillment tech family is one of the pillars allowing Grab to out-serve our customers and partners in different businesses and marketplaces across Southeast Asia. We are working on high throughput, real-time distributed systems that use advanced software engineering techniques to solve hundreds of millions of requests per day. We are a distributed team in 5 different locations: Singapore, Beijing, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Romania.

You will be reporting to the Senior Software Engineering Manager, Fulfilment.

Our mission is to offer the best products and experiences to our driver partners as to increase adoption and engagement of our services. Improve driver partner opportunities and efficiency to fulfill customer orders without fail, rain or shine. And to create efficient marketplaces by determining an price that is both sustainable and loved by our partners

Get to know the role

We are looking for a Software Engineer, Backend to join our Fulfilment Platform Engineering Team. We are looking for a candidate with experience in cloud engineering, system design and architecture, and infrastructure automation and integration, always delivers high-quality code, and is willing to guide junior engineers. This role is required because we are revamping our operational fundamentals to improve the automation and efficiency of market operations. In return, you will work with a great team on complex architectures and business.

This role will be base onsite at our South Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Design and write with the Go language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab's range of services
• Work with the engineering team to explore and create new design/architectures geared toward scale and performance
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards
• Participate in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning, and optimization
• Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications
• Work with the infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services and performing root cause analysis investigations
• Develop, analyze, and fix large-scale systems
• Debug and solve production incidents during your on-call shift
• Participate in interview loops to help Grab continue hiring top industry talent
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and knowledge sharing to peers.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or related fields
• 3+ years of experience in software engineering in a distributed systems environment
• Experience with Golang, including an understanding of its core syntax and semantics, familiarity with its standard library, its concurrency primitives, and experience developing and optimizing Golang applications.
• Proficiency in maintaining operational excellence and site reliability, including familiarity with overseeing system performance, ensuring system health, and managing service capacity planning.
• Good Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures
• Familiarity with running large-scale web services; understanding of systems internals and networking are an advantage
• Experience developing distributed systems with high throughput and scalability, including an understanding of streaming systems and queuing models and their respective integration into these systems.
• You can be a good coder in any language (C++, C, Java, Scala, Rust, Haskell, OCaml, Erlang, Python, Ruby, PHP, Node.JS, C#, etc.), but willing to work on Golang

Good-to-Haves:

• Expert knowledge in databases, including relational databases such as MySQL and NoSQL databases like AWS DynamoDB, Scylla, and others, accompanied by a distinct understanding of multiple design decision possible effects. Architect high scalable solutions while keeping cost-effectiveness in mind.
• Experience mentoring junior developers, providing guidance on coding standards, and promoting a collaborative learning environment within the team.
• Demonstrate a sense of product thinking, being able to align technical strategies with product goals, and understanding how development decisions can directly help end-users.

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.