Lead Backend Engineer - Go & Microservices (Onsite SG)

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Term Life Insurance

Medical Insurance

GrabFlex benefits

Parental leave

Birthday leave

LASA volunteering leave

Flexible work hours

Job summary

Grab For Business is building backend services powering enterprise customers and employees to access Grab offerings. You will work with experienced engineers to deliver robust APIs used by mobile and web apps, reporting to an engineering manager based in Singapore and working onsite in Singapore.

The role emphasizes designing scalable, reliable services, translating product requirements into technical solutions, and delivering high-quality code via testing, monitoring, and reviews.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of software development experience delivering solutions across teams.
• Proficiency in Go and writing idiomatic, testable code.
• Hands-on backend microservices experience; familiar with HTTP/gRPC, MySQL and Redis.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes, Istio, and observability tools (DataDog, Kibana, Grafana).
• Understanding of version control and CI/CD workflows (Git, GitLab).

Responsibilities

• Lead design and operation of scalable backend services and platform components.
• Convert product requirements into technical solutions while driving architectural trade-offs.
• Oversee delivery of high-quality code with testing, performance, observability, and code reviews.
• Collaborate with product, business, mobile, web, data, and infra teams to solve end-to-end challenges.
• Improve service reliability through monitoring, health fixes, incident response, and root cause analysis.
• Participate in on-call rotation and take ownership during production incidents.
• Guide engineers through technical coaching, design reviews, and knowledge sharing.
• Identify and guide ongoing improvements in engineering processes and system health.

Skills

Go

Backend development

HTTP/gRPC

MySQL

Redis

Kubernetes

Istio

CI/CD

GitLab

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio

DataDog

Kibana

Grafana

GitLab

Job description

Grab For Business is building backend services powering enterprise customers and employees to access Grab offerings. You will work with experienced engineers to deliver robust APIs used by mobile and web apps, reporting to an engineering manager based in Singapore and working onsite in Singapore.

The role emphasizes designing scalable, reliable services, translating product requirements into technical solutions, and delivering high-quality code via testing, monitoring, and reviews.