Release Engineer, Mobile Platform

Get to know our Team:

Mobile Platform team is the team at Grab responsible to lay down and continuously improve the software foundations and infrastructure components that all Grab mobile apps are built upon. The team also focuses on driving and perfecting the company mobile apps release process and tools, with the ultimate objective to keep app releases snappy, easy, and reliable.

Get to know the Role:

As a release engineer in Mobile Platform you will own the health of our mobile apps, and stability and reliability of our continuous integration and distribution pipeline. You will be responsible to design and deploy the necessary CI/CD infrastructure and configuration, facilitate the on-time execution of our mobile apps release process, and incorporate and streamline process related to test, staging, early access and production builds and distribution mechanisms. You will work in a multidisciplinary team, always pushing the bar of technical and operational excellence, in an environment where continuous improvement, fail-fast, and data-driven decision-making are first class citizens. 

The day-to-day activities:

• Architect, maintain, and streamline the Grab automated CI/CD pipelines deployed on multiple environments. 

• Integrate tools and processes so that they can improve the reliability, stability and efficiency with which we release our apps and services.

• Collaborate across teams with the aim to facilitate and champion the quick resolution of problems found during the release process of our mobile apps.

• Monitor the performance of the live apps and collaborate with mobile developers to increase the success of releases.

• Continuously improve the release process of our mobile apps.

The must haves:

• A degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology or related fields.

• Up-to-date on the modern Android and iOS programming paradigm, eg. Swift, Kotlin, cross-platform development.

• Broad experience designing, writing and maintaining automated test, from unit test to UI/Functional level. Experience with mobile testing frameworks will be a major plus.

• Experience in releasing and managing apps in the Play Store and App Store.

• You are highly accountable and take ownership. You also have a collaborative attitude, because ‘Your Problem Is My Problem’ (YPIMP).