Get to know the role

Learn and influence the fundamentals of engineering at Grab
Relentless focus on delivering high-quality, maintainable and bug-free code at scale
Discuss and debate with other team members to find optimal solutions
Monitor systems to make sure there is no disruption in our services

Your role & responsibilities

Design and write cutting-edge backend services for Grab's range of products that serve millions of users
Conceive, analyze, design, build and maintain large-scale systems, ensuring system is robust, highly optimized for performance, highly scalable, highly available.
Work with your team to explore and create new designs geared towards scale and performance
Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards
Work with product managers, data analysts and UI designers to implement products and test their impact to business metrics
Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization
Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype features
Work closely with infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services as well as performing root-cause analysis investigations
Conduct performance tuning and optimization
Debug and modify complex, production software.

Your skills & qualifications

The must have:

5-7 years Back-end experience
Strong computer science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures
Familiarity with running large scale microservices services
Strong understanding of system performance and scaling
Excellent communication skills, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills, ability to think critically system growth and stability
Familiarity with AWS
Experience in writing good unit tests
Conversational English

Nice to have

Work experience in Java or Go (strongly preferred)
A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related fields
Understanding of distributed systems and network protocols
Familiar with Cloud service providers: AWS, Azure.
Elastic Search, MySQL, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Kafka, Redis, Terraform, Docker, Gitlab, Jenkins, LUA