Senior Software Engineer, Back-end

• 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.

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