Senior Software Engineer, Mobile (Android)

Grab; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Term Life Insurance

Medical Insurance

GrabFlex benefits

Parental leave

Birthday leave

Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering

Grabber Assistance Programme

FlexWork differentiated hours

Job summary

Grab is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Mobile (Android) in Bengaluru to build products and services related to fraud, abuse and risk management for Grab and partner apps on Android. You will report to the Senior Software Engineering Manager and contribute to high-quality, scalable mobile solutions.

The role emphasizes deep hands-on programming, architectural judgment, and staying current with tech trends; you will collaborate across product, business, and program management while operating

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Experience creating detailed technical documentation shared across departments and leadership.
• Experience making architectural tradeoffs to rapidly deliver software solutions.
• Desire to uphold trust of customers in Grab.
• Experience as a successful software development leader in large-scale internet/mobile apps.
• History of working with geo-distributed partner teams.
• Experience with android SDK.
• Understanding of multithreaded applications and concurrency.
• Proficiency in Java/Kotlin/C++.
• Understanding of OS internals in android or Linux.
• Proficiency with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab).

Responsibilities

• Identify gaps and product ideas in fraud, abuse, and risk domain for platform and mobile apps and translate into product solutions.
• Collaborate with product, business and programme management teams on deliverables.
• Participate in technical and product review meetings; maintain existing products.
• Research the latest advancements in Android and fraud tools to keep products up to date.
• Deliver high quality, maintainable, and operationally excellent code.
• Close all assigned code review and design reviews.
• Work with Backend and SRE teams to build/maintain products and track impact and observability.

Skills

Android SDK

Java/Kotlin/C++

Multithreading

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Documentation

Geo-distributed teams

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab

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 Anti-Abuse Engineering team builds applications to provide safety, security and bring trust in all of the high throughput systems, and services of Grab and its partners.

It combats fraud in real-time, the team is composed of and skillful engineers who come together from different domains of technology.

We take pride in building distributed systems that have an impact on the lives of millions of users in our endeavor to out-serve the underserved population. Terms such as Idempotent, CAP theorem, Distributed Agreement are not just theoretical terms for us but have a bearing on the systems we build.

Get to Know the Role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Mobile (Android) to continue building products and services related to fraud, abuse and risk management for Grab and its partner's mobile applications built for the Android platform . We believe you have Deep, hands-on programming and technical design skills with demonstrated willingness and capability to Stay informed about relevant technology trends and developments.

You will be reporting to Senior Software Engineering Manager and the role is based in Bangalore

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Identify gaps, product ideas in the fraud, abuse, and risk domain on the platform and mobile applications and translating them product solutions.
• Collaborate with the product, business, and programme management team to be on top of your deliverables.
• Participate in technical and product review meetings. Maintain the existing products.
• Understand and research the latest advancements in android and fraud tools to keep the products up to date.
• Deliver high quality, maintainable, and operationally excellent code.
• Closure of all the assigned code review and design reviews.
• Work with the other co-workers, Backend, and SREs engineers to build/maintain product(s)/solutions/services while keeping track of impact and observability.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Experience creating detailed technical documentation share across departments, locations, and organisations, including senior leadership.
• Experience making any architectural tradeoffs required to rapidly deliver software solutions in a environment.
• You desire to uphold trust of our customers in Grab.
• Experience as a successful software development leader in large-scale, available Internet and mobile applications
• History of working with and growing geo-distributed partner teams
• Experience with android SDK.
• Understanding of multithreaded applications and handling concurrency.
• Fluent in Java/Kotlin/C++ language.
• Understanding of OS internals in android or Linux.
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab)

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 enables diverse Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.

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