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 Mobility team is an established team responsible for the Transport module in the Grab app. We improve the core transport booking experience. We are made up of experienced and diversified engineers. If you are looking for an opportunity to make it seamless and effortless for millions of users, then you should join our team!

We are working on high throughput, real-time distributed systems that use sophisticated algorithms and machine learning techniques to solve hundreds of millions of requests per day. Our mission is to offer the best products and experiences to our passengers to increase adoption, engagement and conversion of our services.

We are a distributed team with members spread across Singapore, China, Vietnam and Malaysia at the moment. Our mode of communication is English, both in spoken and written form. Our team has direct end-user contact, and influence on the bottom line for Grab. You will report to our Software Engineering Manager, and you will based onsite in our Petaling Jaya office.

Get to Know the Role

We are looking for experienced & passionate Engineers to join our team, you will have opportunities to work on multiple backend services and frontend web applications, and participating in immersions, talking directly to the end-users, identifying their challenges and how we can help them in their work life. It is very important that our team members to identify problems, and have the right mindset and skills to solve them.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You'll create responsive, user-friendly interfaces using JavaScript/TypeScript.
• You'll design and improve our advanced large-scale services. The goal is to ensure that these services are always available and scalable, across all of Grab's diverse product range.
• You'll improve and shape new design architectures. The focus here is on scalability and performance. of our services.
• When issues arise, you'll conduct root cause analysis investigations to identify and rectify them.
• You'll collaborate with product managers, designers, and team members to deliver features.
• You'll lead feature development from conception to deployment, driving technical decision-making.
• You'll debug and make necessary modifications to our production software. Your efforts will ensure that our software is always running smoothly providing a reliable service to our users.
• You'll mentor junior developers and conduct code reviews to foster growth.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• 4+ years of professional software development experience.
• Advanced JavaScript/Typescript skills, familiar with various UI development techniques.
• Experienced Backend development stack including API development, Databases, Caching techniques, Queueing frameworks etc.
• Write extensible code for complex projects and pick the right abstractions that follow SOLID principles. Understand more complex data structures and algorithms, and recognize when to use them.
• Experience with defect tracking tools and version control.
• Committed to maintaining a set of software engineering skills.
• An understanding of clean architecture principles.
• Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures.
• Experience with web frameworks and tools such as React.js, Redux.js, Webpack etc.

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 provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.