Senior Software Engineer, Backend

GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd.; 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

GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd. in Selangor, Malaysia is seeking an experienced backend engineer to join our rider/merchant platform team in Petaling Jaya.

You will develop and operate backend services, own end-to-end system design, and collaborate with product and frontend teams to deliver robust solutions. We value engineers who can design scalable microservices, work with RESTful APIs, databases like MySQL, and deploy on AWS/Azure/Google Cloud, while following best practices in Git, testing, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend development experience in Go, Scala, Java or C++.
• Experience building microservices and distributed systems with RESTful APIs and messaging queues.
• Experience with relational databases, especially MySQL.
• Knowledge of software development best practices: Git, unit testing, and CI/CD.
• Experience deploying code in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Frontend basics with HTML, CSS, JavaScript.

Responsibilities

• End-to-End System Ownership: design, build, and operate high-quality software systems.
• Architectural & Operational Excellence: apply advanced patterns, ensure deployment health.
• Strategic Stakeholder Partnership: collaborate with technical and non-technical teams across product lifecycle.
• Process Optimization: improve team workflows and engineering processes.
• Mentorship & Team Growth: mentor juniors and foster continuous learning.

Skills

Go

Scala

Java

C++

Microservices architecture

Distributed systems

RESTful APIs

Message queuing systems

MySQL

Git

CI/CD

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

Tools

Git

CI/CD pipelines

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

MySQL

Job description

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

At Business Platform, our goal is to make merchants happy, and help them thrive in their business. We support all merchants, between tiny merchants (like a warung or hawker) and big, international franchises. Merchants have a lot of different businesses: restaurants, supermarkets, fashion, online stores, people who sell on social media, and many more. We level the playing field between tiny merchants and big merchants by giving them the same tools to grow their business, to attract customers, to become more efficient and be able to concentrate on what they do best inside one GrabMerchant App and Portal. If you go to a restaurant, chances are high you have seen some of the products of our team already.

Get to Know the Role

We are seeking talented & passionate engineers to join our team, you will have opportunities to work on multiple backend services as well as participating in merchant immersions, talking directly to the end-users, identifying their challenges and how we can help them in their work life. It is very important that our team members to identify problems, and have the right mindset and skill sets to solve them.

You will be reporting to the Software Engineering Manager II and will be based onsite at our Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• End-to-End System Ownership: Independently designs, builds, and operates high-quality software systems, ensuring they are secure, reliable, maintainable, and rigorously tested.
• Architectural & Operational Excellence: Applies advanced architectural patterns and infrastructure best practices, while maintaining accountability for post-deployment monitoring and system health.
• Strategic Stakeholder Partnership: Collaborates effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, actively contributing to the entire product lifecycle from initial design to final rollout.
• Process Optimization: Proactively identifies and implements improvements to team workflows and engineering processes to enhance overall efficiency and delivery.
• Mentorship & Team Growth: Acts as a senior by mentoring junior engineers and fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional development within the team.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• You need to have solid software engineering and coding skills. Specifically, we're looking for someone with at least 5 years of experience in a backend language like Go, Scala, Java or C++.
• You understand building microservices architecture and a good grasp of distributed systems, RESTful APIs, and message queuing systems. Your knowledge in these areas will develop our back-end services.
• Experience with relational databases, such as MySQL, is important. You'll work with databases so familiarity with how they work and how to work with them is important.
• You have knowledge of software development best practices. This includes version control (specifically Git), unit testing, and continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• You should have experience deploying code in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud environments
• You may help build front-end applications. This means you need to be comfortable working with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Your skills in these areas will directly contribute to the enhancement of our user interfaces.

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.