Lead Software Engineer, FullStack

The Finance Tech Family is a recently launched vertical within Grab. This team is responsible

for developing critical Financial Systems to support key stakeholders including Heads of

Businesses, Finance, Accounting, and Operations teams.

Get to know the Role:

• Design, develop and maintain web applications

• Coordinate with stakeholders from Product, Design, Finance and other teams to translate business requirements into software designs and implementations

• Estimation and timely delivery of software systems

• Develop maintainable and reusable systems

• Adopt and evolve best engineering practices

The day-to-day activities:

• Write high-quality web applications that delight end-users of the product

• Design and implement RESTful APIs

• Develop dynamic and responsive web interfaces using React framework

• Developing reusable web components

• Write unit, functional and end-to-end tests

• Collaborate closely with User Experience Design, Product, Development, Finance, and Operations teams

• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues

The Must Haves:

• A proactive approach in terms of getting things done in a fast-paced environment

• Taking ownership and responsibility of components and modules

• Being a team player and helping the team achieve shared objectives

• At least 4 years of professional experience shipping web applications to production

• Familiarity with the entire web stack (frontend, backend and database), and web performance optimization techniques

• Experience with Javascript programming language and at least one modern JavaScript UI framework such as React, Ember, Angular, etc. used to develop Single Page Applications

• Good understanding of modern web frameworks

• Experience designing Rest APIs

• Experience with programming languages such as Go, Java or C++

• Experience using Relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, etc.)

• Knowledge of web security and performance

• Knowledge and experience with Software Design patterns

• Knowledge and experience with Application Integration patterns

• Looking for someone with a minimum of 8 years experience.

Nice to have:

• Experience with data modelling

• Familiarity with build and deployment concepts

• Familiarity with cloud systems such as Azure or AWS

• Experience with web application security and performance tuning