Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack

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 Synapse team at Grab is a dynamic group of engineers dedicated to enhancing our Services' lifecycle management processes and deployment pipelines. We foster a collaborative environment where innovation thrives, and team members are encouraged to share ideas and solutions. Our diverse backgrounds and expertise allow us to solve complex challenges and drive impactful results.

Get to Know the Role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack to join the Synapse Team. You will be reporting to the Engineering Manager. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining robust service orchestration and deployment solutions that ensure the reliability and performance of our systems.

This is an onsite role based in First Avenue, Petaling Jaya.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You will build service orchestration pipelines to handle service creation, lifecycle management, and deprecation of Microservices across Grab's systems.
• You will define and implement Service definitions and standards, design robust and consistent orchestration flows to management the Service lifecycle.
• You will work with other stakeholders to integrate Service and deployment best practices into team workflows.
• You will be part of the platformization braintrust, contributing to best inter-platform communication practices by design robust API interactions.
• You will contribute to on-call rotations and post-incident analyses.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of Fullstack software engineering experience, with proficiency in backend (Go, Kotlin, Python, Java) and frontend (React, Angular) languages.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and cloud platforms (AWS), with ability to debug and scale complex systems.
• Experience with CI/CD tools, Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform), and orchestration languages (e.g., Ansible).
• Familiarity with logging and monitoring frameworks (e.g., ELK stack, Datadog, Grafana, Splunk).
• Experience in Platform Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).

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, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.