Software Engineer, Backend

GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd.; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Southeast Asian superapp company in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia is seeking a skilled software engineer to develop and maintain their backend systems. The ideal candidate has over three years of experience in software engineering, with a strong foundation in Golang and microservices architecture. This role offers competitive benefits and supports a diverse workplace culture.

Benefits

Term Life Insurance

Comprehensive Medical Insurance

GrabFlex benefits package

Parental and Birthday leave

Confidential Grabber Assistance Programme

FlexWork arrangements

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a software engineer writing production code.
• Solid software engineering and coding skills.
• Willingness to work on Golang.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust backend services.
• Collaborate with teams to provide high-quality software solutions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex backend issues.

Skills

Production code experience

Microservices architecture

Golang

RESTful APIs

Distributed systems

Tools

Git

AWS

MySQL

DynamoDB

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

The Fulfillment tech family is one of the pillars allowing Grab to out-serve our customers and partners in different businesses and marketplaces across Southeast Asia. You will be reporting to Senior Software Engineering Manager. We are working on high throughput, real-time distributed systems that use advanced software engineering techniques to solve hundreds of millions of requests per day. We are a distributed team in 4 different locations: Singapore, Beijing, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Our communication is in English, both in spoken and written form.

Our mission is to offer the best products and experiences to our driver partners as to increase adoption and engagement of our services. Improve driver partner opportunities and efficiency to fulfill customer orders without fail and to create efficient marketplaces by determining an price that is both sustainable and loved by our partners and customers.

Get to Know the Role

• Develop and maintain the back-end system of the million-user-scale supply search platform, ensuring stable operation and efficient response of the platform.
• Conduct in-depth analysis of data related to driver choice, explore influencing factors, and improve drivers' decision-making paths and order matching strategies through technical means.
• Participate in system architecture design and performance optimization, and solve technical challenges in high-concurrency and large-data-volume scenarios.

This role is onsite based in our Petaling Jaya, Malaysia office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You will design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable backend services using Golang within a microservices architecture.
• You will collaborate with teams, including front-end developers, product managers, and QA engineers, to understand project requirements and provide high-quality software solutions.
• You will implement best practices and coding standards to ensure the reliability, performance, and security of our backend systems.
• You will write clean, maintainable, and efficient code, and conduct thorough code reviews to ensure code quality and adherence to software development best practices.
• You will troubleshoot and resolve complex backend issues and system failures, ensuring resolution to minimize impact on production environments.
• You will collaborate with DevOps teams to automate deployment, monitoring, and scaling of backend services on AWS.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• 3+ years of experience as a software engineer writing production code
• Solid software engineering and coding skills. Experience in at least one backend language like Go, Scala, Java, C++, or others is required. You can be a good coder in any language but must be willing to work on Golang
• Proficiency in building microservices architecture and understanding of distributed systems, RESTful APIs, and message queuing systems.
• Experience with relational databases (e.g., MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB).
• Knowledge of software development best practices, including version control (Git), unit testing, and CI/CD pipelines.

The Nice-to-Haves

• Familiar with open source search engine, familiar with Lucene, Elasticsearch
• Hands-on experience with performance profiling, optimization, and debugging of backend systems.
• Hands-on experience working with AWS infrastructure

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.