Software Engineer, Backend (Insurance)

The day-to-day activities:
Design and write with the cutting edge GO language 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:

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

Experience in Financial Services would be a plus

Ability to converse in Chinese would be an added advantage

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 and Jenkins.