Backend Software Engineer — AI-First Platforms (Onsite PJ)

Grab; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Term Life Insurance

Medical Insurance

GrabFlex benefits

Parental and Birthday leave

LASA volunteering leave

Grabber Assistance Programme

FlexWork arrangements

Job summary

Grab's Petaling Jaya office seeks a Software Engineer to contribute to the Business Applications Engineering team's work on the next generation of AI-first applications and internal platforms.

You will participate across the delivery lifecycle—from design and implementation to production delivery, monitoring, and continuous improvement—using agentic engineering practices to build secure, observable systems and improve team productivity.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience developing and testing production software using at least one modern programming language.
• Understanding APIs, databases, software design fundamentals, and system dependencies.
• Experience writing automated tests and applying software quality practices.
• Ability to investigate issues, read logs, improve monitoring, and support production systems.
• Ability to explain technical work clearly and collaborate with stakeholders.
• Experience engaging with agentic engineering tools and emerging technologies to boost productivity.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain features, services, integrations, and automations for internal enterprise applications and platforms.
• Contribute to reusable foundations for agentic applications, including APIs, event contracts, data access, identity, permissions, auditability, and human escalation paths.
• Apply testing, evaluation, observability, security controls, and operational guardrails throughout the lifecycle.
• Build prototypes and production code to validate ideas and accelerate delivery.
• Write readable, well-tested code, and participate in design discussions and code reviews.
• Support production delivery, monitoring, incident investigation, and documentation.
• Identify repetitive work and propose automation or AI-enabled improvements to boost productivity.

Skills

2+ years exp

Production software

APIs & databases

Automated tests

Logs & monitoring

Clear communication

Agentic tools

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

Codex

Job description

Grab's Petaling Jaya office seeks a Software Engineer to contribute to the Business Applications Engineering team's work on the next generation of AI-first applications and internal platforms.

You will participate across the delivery lifecycle—from design and implementation to production delivery, monitoring, and continuous improvement—using agentic engineering practices to build secure, observable systems and improve team productivity.