Software Engineer, Backend (Safety)

Get to know our Team:

The User Trust team acts as guardians of all our users on 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 a leader in an exciting and dynamic industry that is evolving daily, we are seeking talented Engineers to join our team! You will specialize in maintaining elegant products on world-class technologies that bring our unique On-Demand Transport experience to millions of people, anytime and anywhere. The Grab engineering teams work on user-facing mobile and web apps, building delightful, performant user interfaces that our passengers use to access booking and ride information.  Grab full stack engineers also provide the entire company with fully-featured web portals that support interacting with passenger, driver, and bookings data. Working on the web teams at Grab is an enriching experience given the scale that we operate at. You will get to solve interesting problems by collaborating with other Engineers, UI Designers, and Data teams. You will also pick up the software engineering practices for larger teams: code reviews, ample use of static analysis, prolific feature-flagging, semantic versioning of internal APIs, and more.
 

The day-to-day activities:

• Design, write and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab services
• Designing, enhancing and building out new features and services
• 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
• Work with Data Scientists to analyze and monitor large-scale data

The must haves:

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 5+ years of experience in commercial software development in large distributed systems
• Strong understanding of system performance and scaling
• Possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and asynchronous architectures
• Familiarity with running web services at scale; understanding of systems internals and networking are a plus
• Able to think critically of the current system in terms of growth and stability

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.