Lead Software Engineer, Backend

Grab; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Term Life Insurance

Medical Insurance

GrabFlex benefits package

Parental leave

Birthday leave

LASA volunteering leave

Grabber Assistance Programme

FlexWork arrangements

Job summary

Grab is seeking a Lead Engineer for its Lending-focused backend team based in Singapore. You will design, develop, and maintain backend components, collaborating with product, business and programme management to ensure timely delivery.

You will advocate best practices, perform code reviews, and guide architectural decisions for scalable services. The role reports to an Engineering Manager and is onsite in the Singapore office, with ownership of critical systems and performance improvements

Qualifications

• 10+ years in a relevant field, with lending domain experience.
• Robust backend systems development (DBMS, NoSQL, caches, web/app servers).
• Proficiency in Golang and CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, OS).

Responsibilities

• Propose and lead technical improvements that enhance performance and efficiency.
• Contribute to technical and product reviews, providing insights and feedback.
• Deliver high-quality, maintainable code and own the development process.
• Collaborate with SRE/DevOps to manage scalable infrastructure.
• Participate in on-call rotation and address system issues promptly.
• Lead projects with clear communication and ownership of outcomes.

Skills

Golang

Backend systems

Distributed systems

CS fundamentals

Lending domain experience

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

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 Lending team builds secure, versatile loan products for diverse user segments, managing important platform components like the Loan Management System, Repayments Engine, and Product Flow Orchestrator. We create distributed systems that impact millions, with a focus on underserved communities. Concepts like Idempotency, CAP theorem, and Distributed Agreement are important to the systems we develop.

Get To Know The Role

We are looking for a passionate Lead Engineer with the required skills and more to join our team. You will have opportunities to design, develop, and maintain backend components. You will collaborate with the product, business, and programme management teams to ensure deliverables. You will also adopt and advocate software engineering best practices for larger teams, including code reviews, static analysis, feature-flagging, and semantic versioning of internal APIs. A significant part of your role will involve the design and architecture of backend systems. You will report to an Engineering Manager.

Workplace Type: This role will be onsite and based in the Singapore office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You will propose and lead technical improvements that inspire creativity, enhance system performance, and improve efficiency across the team.
• Contribute to technical and product review meetings, offering valuable insights and providing constructive feedback.
• Deliver high-quality, maintainable, and reliable code, taking ownership of the entire development process.
• Collaborate with SRE and DevOps teams to manage scalable and reliable infrastructure, improving.
• Participate in on-call rotation, maintaining by addressing system issues and ensuring a smooth, uninterrupted operations.
• Lead projects, ensuring clear understanding among all partners, updates and resolutions to customers and partners, and taking responsibility for successful outcomes.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Bring 10 years of experience in a relevant field, with lending domain experience.
• Build robust backend systems, including DBMS, caches, NoSQL, web, and app servers.
• You are proficient in Golang, while applying strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals like data structures, algorithms, and operating systems.
• You will demonstrate proactivity, creativity, and a keen ability to balance the needs of product, engineering, and business.
• You will use your experience with web technologies and distributed systems to build scalable and reliable solutions.
• Add value with your experience in building consumer-facing products.
• Contribute your knowledge of developing OLTP systems and performance.
• Experience deploying code in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud environments

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 enables diverse Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.