Lead Software Engineer, Backend (Automation Platform)

Get to know our Team:

The Automation Platform team at Grab is a part of the engineering scale family and works across all backend, web and mobile teams at Grab, delivering top- notch automation and tooling for enabling an ecosystem to support faster and easier software releases and better scalability of our product. We utilize industry-leading technologies like GoLang, AWS, MySQL, Kafka, Redis, Terraform, Docker, so there is always room to learn and to mentor. We are a highly cross-functional team that works to accelerate the entire delivery and deployment process at Grab. We work on setting the standards by which other teams abide, and aspire to help every engineer spend more time building great products and less time debugging or monitoring them. Our work has a direct impact on the productivity and the culture of our company. You will have visibility into every other engineering team and their systems, and you will engage in helping and mentoring them.

Get to know the Role:
 

You will be a multiplier for your team and your peers, guiding, supporting and innovating at every step of the development initiative, providing technical insight and perspective, challenging the status quo and raising the bar, connecting people and teams across the organization.


The day-to-day activities:
 

• Lead and mentor world-class engineering teams that deliver results through rapid iterations

• Provide technical direction within your team and influence the directions of outside teams

• Drive continual improvements to the efficiency and flexibility of the business platform while keeping an extremely high bar for customer trust, performance, and availability

• Design and write with Go, Ruby, Python and other languages to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab's range of services

• Work with engineering team to explore and create new design / architectures geared towards scale and performance

• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards

• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization

• Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications

• Work closely with infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services as well as performing root cause analysis investigations

• Design, build, analyze and fix large-scale systems

• Learn full stack performance tuning and optimization

• Debug and modify complex, production software

The must haves:
 

• Customer Obsession and drive to make a difference in people's lives in Southeast Asia

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering in a distributed systems environment

• Track record of designing, developing and implementing large scale highly available online services.

• Continuous desire to learn new things and embrace latest technologies.

• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or related fields

• Strong Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures

• Familiarity with running large scale web services; understanding of systems internals and networking are a plus

• Strong understanding of system performance and scaling

• Possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills, able to think critically of the current system in terms of growth and stability

• You can be a good coder in any language (C++, C, Java, Scala, Rust, Haskell, OCaml, Erlang, Python, Ruby, PHP, Node.JS, C# etc.), but willing to work on Golang 

Tech Stack

Our core services tech stack consists of Golang with Redis, MySQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch data stores as well as HAProxy load balancers. They all run on the AWS cloud infrastructure with auto-scaling abilities.  

Our mobile app platform coverage includes native iOS and Android, written in Swift and RxJava.  Our Command Center front-end is built on Rails, HTML5, CSS and Javascript. 

We use GitHub for our code repository and we adhere to the basic Continuous Delivery tenets utilising a host of tools to support our release pipeline and code quality. These include Travis CI, New Relic, PullReview, Code Climate, Papertrail, Gemnasium, JFrog, Ansible, Terraform and Jenkins.

Nice to haves:

• Experience taking a leading role in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers

• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

• Experience communicating with customers, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy

• Experience mentoring junior software engineers to improve their skills and make them more effective software engineers

• Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between

• Ability to handle multiple, competing priorities in a fast-paced environment

• Master's Degree/PhD in Computer Science or related field

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences