Backend Engineer: Scalable Experimentation Platform

GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd.; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 80,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Term Life Insurance

Medical Insurance

GrabFlex benefits package

Parental leave

Birthday leave

LASA volunteering leave

Grabber Assistance Programme

Job summary

Grab, Southeast Asia's leading superapp, is hiring a software engineer to advance experimentation at scale. You will design, develop, and maintain full‑stack apps, build RESTful services, and optimize data models in a distributed platform.

Based in Petaling Jaya, you will work onsite with GrabX and collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable solutions for A/B testing and analytics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of professional software development experience with backend language (Go, Scala, Java, or C++).
• Foundations in frontend tech (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) for user-facing features.
• Experience with microservices architecture, distributed systems, and RESTful API design.
• Hands-on experience with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL/caching (MongoDB, Redis).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and their core services.
• Understanding of security best practices and secure coding.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum environments and system design/perf optimization.
• Contributions to open-source projects or a portfolio demonstrating technical expertise.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain full-stack applications using modern languages and frameworks.
• Build and optimize RESTful APIs and microservices for high traffic with low latency.
• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering to translate requirements into solutions.
• Perform schema design, data modeling, and query optimization for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis.
• Implement automated testing strategies (unit/integration) to improve reliability.
• Set up CI/CD pipelines and containerized environments (Docker/Kubernetes) on cloud infra.
• Establish monitoring, logging, and tracing to identify bottlenecks and ensure security.
• Participate in code reviews and mentor junior engineers.
• Document designs, architecture decisions, and workflows for knowledge sharing.
• Stay current with industry trends and introduce improvements to platform and processes.

Skills

Go

Scala

Java

C++

Frontend basics

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

MySQL

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

AWS

GCP

Azure

REST APIs

Security

Agile/Scrum

Open-source

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

MySQL

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

Job description

Grab, Southeast Asia's leading superapp, is hiring a software engineer to advance experimentation at scale. You will design, develop, and maintain full‑stack apps, build RESTful services, and optimize data models in a distributed platform.

Based in Petaling Jaya, you will work onsite with GrabX and collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable solutions for A/B testing and analytics.