Engineering Manager - Developer Platform

Get to know our Team:

We are looking for Software Engineering Manager that will take support for various language frameworks (services, web, mobile) to the next level at Grab. Are you a person who is excited about making complicated things very simple? Are you passionate about eliminating any manual steps in development flow by creating elegant engineering systems, frameworks and tools? Then come and talk to us.

The Language Frameworks team at Grab is a part of the engineering scale family, and works across all backend, web and mobile teams at Grab, delivering simple to use language abstractions and common libraries to ensure that writing software at Grab straight forward through elimination of boilerplate code and codifying the best engineering practices.

We utilize industry-leading technologies like GoLang, Kotlin, Swift, AWS, MySQL, Kafka, Redis, Terraform, Docker, so there is always room to learn and to mentor.

Get to know the Role:

• Deep, hands-on programming and technical design skills with demonstrated willingness and capability to learn new technologies quickly

• 5+ years of software development management experience, preferably in large scale distributed systems

• Demonstrated ability to design, build, and deliver complex, successful backend services and/or mobile, web frameworks

• Proven team leadership, interpersonal skills, and ability to get things done

• Ability to clearly communicate high level strategy and technical details effectively across disciplines, locations, and organizations, including to senior leadership.

• Strong bias for action; ability to juggle multiple priorities and build a sense of urgency in a dynamic environment.

• Burning desire to build magical experiences for our engineers

The must haves:

• A degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology or have similar experience.

• Have a track record of designing, developing and implementing complex, low-latency, and preferably transaction-based/B2C, mobile applications and/or web services with over one million users.

• Experience leading large teams of engineers and driving large-scale projects and products, in collaboration with other engineering teams

• Able to attract, develop, and keep high quality multi-disciplinary teams

• Strong communication skills and can act as an advisor, coach, mentor, and partner all at the same time.

Experience:

• We welcome candidates across all experience levels. Roles will be tailored accordingly