Lead Backend Engineer — Go, Microservices & Frameworks

GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Medical Insurance

Leave Entitlement

Flexible Work Arrangements

Community Involvement (LASA)

Differentiated hours (FlexWork)

Job summary

GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd. seeks a Lead Engineer in the FLIP team to develop the framework powering Grab's backend services. You will identify opportunities to optimise the Software Development Lifecycle, lead technical projects, and shape the next generation of microservices for Grab.

Your team operates across three locations in South East Asia; you will work from the Singapore office and report to the Senior Engineering Manager located there.

Qualifications

• : 7+ years of software development experience across teams.
• : Proficiency in Go with idiomatic, testable, maintainable code.
• : Hands-on experience writing and operating backend microservices.
• : Familiar with HTTP/gRPC, relational databases (MySQL) and NoSQL databases (Redis).
• : Knowledge of container orchestration (Kubernetes), service mesh (Istio), and observability (DataDog, Kibana, Grafana).
• : Understands version control and CI/CD (Git, GitLab).

Responsibilities

• Identify, plan, and implement AI-driven tools to reduce engineering workload and boost productivity across Grab teams.
• Develop frameworks and libraries in Go that empower product engineers to ship faster without reinventing the wheel.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and technical roadmaps.
• Mentor junior engineers and cultivate a culture of continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and engineering excellence.
• Champion high code quality through rigorous code reviews and constructive feedback.

Skills

Go

Backend microservices

HTTP/gRPC

MySQL

Redis

Kubernetes

Istio

Git/GitLab

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio

DataDog

Kibana

Grafana

MySQL

Redis

Git

GitLab

Job description

GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd. seeks a Lead Engineer in the FLIP team to develop the framework powering Grab's backend services. You will identify opportunities to optimise the Software Development Lifecycle, lead technical projects, and shape the next generation of microservices for Grab.

Your team operates across three locations in South East Asia; you will work from the Singapore office and report to the Senior Engineering Manager located there.