Lead Software Engineer, Customer Data Platform

PLT Engineering; Selangor; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm is seeking a Technical Lead for their Scribe or CDP teams. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in React.JS, Golang, and AWS, and will be responsible for developing scalable data pipelines and improving data capabilities. This role involves leading a team and working onsite at the Kuala Lumpur office in Malaysia. Candidates should be experienced in building real-time data solutions and have a breadth of knowledge across different technical stacks.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge in React.JS and Golang.
• Experience with AWS services and databases like MySQL and Redis.
• Familiarity with data processing frameworks like Apache Flink and Spark.

Responsibilities

• Build platform capabilities for scalable onboarding of user data.
• Improve serving capabilities of CDP's user data.
• Develop real-time data pipelines and architecture.
• Lead a technical team across diverse stacks.

Skills

React.JS

Golang

AWS infrastructure

MySQL

Redis

Python

Apache Flink

Apache Spark

Delta Lake

Job description

Get to Know the Team

1. 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.
2. 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.
• Online Serving: AWS infrastructure, MySQL, Redis, AWS Dynamo DB, Scylla DB.
• Data Processing / Storage: Apache Flink, Apache Spark, Trino, StarRocks, Hive, and Delta Lake.
• Applied AI / ML: LLM, Python Backend, Vector DB.

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.