Technical Lead, Scribe Backend Platform

re-zoo-me; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Term Life Insurance

Medical Insurance

GrabFlex benefits

LASA volunteering leave

Grabber Assistance Programme

Flexible work hours

Job summary

Grab is seeking a Technical Lead for the Scribe backend team to steer architecture and drive delivery across ingestion, streaming and data‑lake pipelines. You will mentor senior engineers and guide RFCs for scalable, reliable systems.

You will report to the Engineering Manager in Singapore and work onsite at Grab's Singapore office (One‑North), coordinating with multiple product analytics and data platforms teams.

Qualifications

• Software Engineering, CS or related undergraduate degree.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including experience as a technical lead or architect for a platform used by many teams.
• Proficient in Go, or willing to learn it, with hands‑on experience in Python or Scala.
• Experience developing large‑scale backend and streaming systems, with a good understanding of the trade‑offs needed for high‑load, low‑latency systems while maintaining reliability and cost efficiency.
• Experience defining and enforcing data contracts or schemas across many producer teams, including versioning, migration and deprecation.
• Experience owning cloud cost for a large data platform on AWS: attribution, retention, right‑sizing and measured savings.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and roadmap of Scribe's backend: ingestion gateway, event‑lifecycle services, streaming and data‑lake pipelines, and the APIs behind the Scribe Portal and Scribe MCP.
• Lead Project MEGA to completion with typed specs, producer‑side validation, CI guardrails, and agent‑driven migration of legacy events.
• Design and deliver the governed clickstream data layer and event vocabulary powering funnel analytics.
• Run the platform cost programme: event lineage, automated deprecation, retention policy, gateway right‑sizing and legacy stream retirement.
• Write RFCs and drive cross‑team technical decisions to closure; represent Scribe in architecture and operational‑excellence reviews.
• Own operational excellence for a critical platform: on‑call process, incident response, post‑mortems, fire drills, SLA and data‑loss monitoring.
• Lead an engineering team with diverse technical stacks and grow the next technical leads.

Skills

Go

Python

Scala

Leadership

Architect

Data contracts

Cloud cost awareness

Education

Software Engineering degree

Tools

Kafka

Flink

Spark

Hive/Iceberg

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Grab is seeking a Technical Lead for the Scribe backend team to steer architecture and drive delivery across ingestion, streaming and data‑lake pipelines. You will mentor senior engineers and guide RFCs for scalable, reliable systems.

You will report to the Engineering Manager in Singapore and work onsite at Grab's Singapore office (One‑North), coordinating with multiple product analytics and data platforms teams.