Senior Backend Lead (Go) — Build Scalable Microservices

Grab; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Term Life Insurance

Medical Insurance

GrabFlex

Parental leave

Birthday leave

LASA volunteering leave

FlexWork arrangements

Job summary

Grab is seeking an experienced backend engineer to join the Grab For Business team in Singapore. You will build and operate scalable backend services and APIs powering enterprise features across mobile and web apps.

Reporting to an engineering manager in Singapore, you will turn product requirements into robust technical solutions, review code, improve observability, and collaborate with product, data, and infrastructure teams to solve complex end-to-end challenges.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and operation of scalable, maintainable backend services and platform components.
• Convert product requirements into technical solutions while driving design discussions and trade-offs.
• Oversee delivery of high-quality code with testing, performance, observability, and code reviews.
• Partner 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.
• Coach engineers through technical guidance, design reviews, and knowledge sharing.
• Identify improvements in engineering processes and system health.

Skills

Go programming

Backend services

Code reviews

CI/CD practices

HTTP/gRPC

Team collaboration

System observability

Education

Computer Science or Engineering degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio

DataDog

Kibana

Grafana

MySQL

Redis

Git

GitLab

Job description

Grab is seeking an experienced backend engineer to join the Grab For Business team in Singapore. You will build and operate scalable backend services and APIs powering enterprise features across mobile and web apps.

Reporting to an engineering manager in Singapore, you will turn product requirements into robust technical solutions, review code, improve observability, and collaborate with product, data, and infrastructure teams to solve complex end-to-end challenges.