Impactful Backend Software Engineer (Contract, 24mo)

Grab; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; 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 is seeking a backend engineer for its FinID Engineering Team based in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. This 24-month contract role focuses on building and maintaining backend services, working with end-users during consumer immersions, and delivering reliable, well-tested code.

You will collaborate across teams, implement clean architecture, and leverage cloud services and CI/CD tools to deliver RESTful services and scalable data pipelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Minimum 2 years of experience writing clean code in any language and willing to learn Go.
• Write extensible code with strong abstractions following SOLID principles.
• Understand complex data structures and algorithms and when to use them.
• Familiar with clean architecture principles.
• Experience developing HTTP RESTful services.
• Experience with messaging (Kafka or SQS).
• Experience with cloud services such as AWS.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Maven, GitLab).
• Experience with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle).

Responsibilities

• Develop backend services and components per defined tasks.
• Analyze requirements and apply appropriate designs.
• Ensure reliability through code reviews, monitoring, and OE standards.
• Own code quality, readability, and test coverage.
• Apply suitable data structures and algorithms.
• Provide constructive feedback during code reviews.
• Respond promptly to issues and keep the team updated.

Skills

Bachelor's degree

2+ years coding

SOLID design

DS & Algorithms

Clean architecture

RESTful API

Kafka/SQS

AWS

CI/CD

SQL DB

Tools

Jenkins

Maven

GitLab

Job description

Grab is seeking a backend engineer for its FinID Engineering Team based in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. This 24-month contract role focuses on building and maintaining backend services, working with end-users during consumer immersions, and delivering reliable, well-tested code.

You will collaborate across teams, implement clean architecture, and leverage cloud services and CI/CD tools to deliver RESTful services and scalable data pipelines.