Lead Software Engineer, Customer Data Platform

Grab; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Southeast Asian superapp company is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for their Customer Data Platform. In this role, you will lead an engineering team to build scalable real-time data pipelines and improve user data serving capabilities using diverse technical stacks including React.JS and various data processing technologies. With at least 7 years of experience in software engineering and fluency in English, you will contribute to enhancing Grab's platform for customer personalization.

Benefits

Term Life Insurance

Comprehensive Medical Insurance

Flexible benefits with GrabFlex

Parental and Birthday leave

Volunteering leave

Grabber Assistance Programme

FlexWork arrangements

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering with a solid history of leading an engineering team.
• Experience developing large-scale backend systems with understanding of systems reliability and cost efficiency.
• Proficient in at least one programming language: Python, Go, or Scala.

Responsibilities

• Build platform capabilities for scalable user data onboarding.
• Improve CDP's user data serving capabilities.
• Develop scalable real-time data pipelines and architecture.

Skills

Software Engineering

Python

Go

Scala

Backend Systems Development

Distributed Systems

English Communication

Education

Undergraduate degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

Apache Flink

Apache Spark

Trino

StarRocks

Hive

Delta Lake

Job description

Lead Software Engineer, Customer Data Platform

• Full-time

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

• Clickstream Intelligence Platform (Scribe) is Grab's in-house app instrumentation and insights platform that captures and analyzes user clickstream activity across all Grab apps. The platform supports observability, real-time personalization, and business analytics by processing tens of billions of events per hour at petabyte scale.
• Customer Data Platform (CDP) enables Grab Teams to onboard and register Grab's customer data and make it available for Online Serving, ML Models, Segmentation, and Real-time targeting to power personalization use cases across the company. Our platform is leveraged across many mission-critical Grab services such as app personalization, experimentation, ads serving, and marketing.

Get to Know the Role

We are looking for a Technical Lead for either Scribe or CDP team that has a strong breadth of different technical stacks:

• Web Portal: React.JS and Golang Backend.
• Data Processing / Storage: Apache Flink, Apache Spark, Trino, StarRocks, Hive, and Delta Lake.

You will report to Engineering Manager in Singapore and work onsite at Grab Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Build platform capabilities to facilitate scalable onboarding of user data that can be easily re-used across the company.
• Improve the serving capabilities of CDP's user data.
• Develop scalable real-time data pipelines and architecture that is cost efficient, while allowing non-technical teams to use these real-time capabilities.
• Lead an engineering team with diverse technical stacks.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related undergraduate degree.
• Minimum of 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering with well-proven track record of leading an engineering team with diverse skillsets.
• Proficient in at least one of the following programing languages: Python, Go, or Scala
• Experience developing large-scale backend systems and has good understanding of technical trade offs and evaluations needed to allow high load, low latency systems, while maintaining system reliability and cost efficiency.
• Experience building APIs, working with OLTP DBs, and operating in a distributed systems environment.
• Strong English communications with prior work experience in regional and global environment

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.