Software Engineer, Backend

Get to know our Team:

The Trust & Safety team acts as guardians of all our users on Grab. Safety of our users is at heat of what we do at Grab. We leverage our rich datasets to find solutions to problems ranging from Safety to Fraud. We’re a hands-on team interested in the end to end data lifecycle: from wrangling data to understanding the tradeoffs between model complexity and deployment in production. If you’re passionate about solving complex problems with immediate real-world impact, we want you!

Get to know the Role:

As such, we are seeking talented & passionate Engineers to join our team, you will have opportunities to work on multiple backend service clusters as well as participating in machine learning pipelines. It is very important that our team member take initiatives to identify problems, and have the right mindset and skill sets to solve them.

The day-to-day activities:

• Work with engineering team on designs/architectures geared towards scale, performance and high availability.

• Design and write with the cutting edge GO language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab's range of services

• 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

• Process real-time transaction and telematics data at scale to build new Safety features

• Work with Data Scientist team to implement models in real-time, testing and monitoring the system

• Build technologies to test and validate insights via rapid experimentation and deployment

The must haves:

• 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. 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.