Lead Software Engineer, Backend (Segmentation)

Software Engineer, Backend (Segmentation)   

Full-time

Bellevue, WA (Downtown)

Job Description

Get to know our Team:

When you're an engineer in Segmentation Platform, you are part of the heart and soul of the company. Our work is used to analyze data to do with millions of passengers, driving partners, and how they use Grab products and services. We build high scale platform with data ingestion in batch, as well as streaming modes. Users and services across the company use our platform to create segments, to understand how customers use our products, and make real time product decisions based on them. Target use cases of our platform include passenger rewards, driver incentives, and pricing.

Get to know the Role:

As a leader in an exciting and dynamic industry that is evolving daily, we are seeking talented Engineers to join our team! Working as a backend engineer at Grab is an enriching experience because of the scale at which we operate, and serve millions of users with their day to day needs including transportation, and payments. You get to work on cutting edge technologies, as well as software engineering practices for high scale, availability, and tremendous business growth.
 

The day-to-day activities:

• Design, write and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab services
• Build and scale our stream processing platform using the latest open-source technologies. 
• Build data pipelines that clean, transform and aggregate data from many different sources including but not limited to clickstream data, consumer behavior data and transaction data.
• Provide thought leadership to the entire team on how data can be stored and processed efficiently, reliably, quickly, and at scale. 
• Work with engineering team to 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
• Work with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications
• Work with infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services as well as performing root cause analysis investigations
• Collaborate across stakeholders such as data scientists, application developers, and department heads to deliver a technical solution that meets their unique needs.

The must haves:

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 5+ years of experience in commercial software development in large distributed systems
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and asynchronous architectures
• Hands-on coder who has built backend services that handle high volume traffic. 
• Experience working with real-time streaming solutions using Kafka or AWS Kinesis.
• Experience publishing data via streams.
• Familiarity with running web services at scale; understanding of systems internals and networking are a plus
• Strong understanding of system performance and scaling
• Expert in at least 1 of the following languages: Python, Go, Java, Scala. 
• 3-5 years of hands-on working experience with Hadoop ecosystem (e.g. Spark/Storm/Hbase etc.), data modeling and using various database methodologies such relational, columnar and NoSQL.
• Possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills, able to think critically of the current system in terms of growth and stability

Get to know our Team:
When you're an engineer at Grab, you are part of the heart and soul of the company. Our passion is anchored in the work that we do, and this is reflected in the impact we make on millions of lives on a daily basis. Our team is empowered by creating amazing services and tools that serve millions of passengers, driving partners, and fellow grabbers.

Culture:

The Grab Principles capture the 4 underlying qualities expected of every Grabber.These are the 4 qualities that got Grab to where we are today and elements we want to preserve in our Grabbers going ahead. Prospective Grabbers should possess all four qualities to qualify as a Grabber.Heart - We care for and serve our communitiesHunger - We have the grit to do what it takes.Honour - We do the right thing and keep to our word.Humility - We are self-aware and constantly seek to improve.