Software Engineer

Software Engineer, Backend - Growth

Jakarta, Indonesia

Get to know our Team:

The Growth team at Grab strategizes and executes on step changing growth initiatives through data-driven approaches and rapid a/b testing, and owns the conception, execution, and experimentation of products, features and engineering systems that drive this mandate.

Get to know the Role:

• Define and shape the fundamentals of engineering at Grab.

• Build safe, robust and reliable development resources and elevate the collective level of code quality.

• Lead the journey towards Continuous Delivery by enabling teams across Grab to test and deploy their code with confidence. You will build frameworks and pipelines that will equip us to achieve CD.

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 and architectures geared towards scale and performance

• Work with product managers, data analysts and UI designers to implement products and features, and test their impact on business metrics.

• 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

• Relevant experience with 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, but willing to work on Golang

Get to know Grab:

Grab is more than just the leading ride-hailing and mobile payments platform in Southeast Asia. We use data and technology to improve everything from transportation to payments and financial services across a region of more than 620 million people. We work with governments, drivers, passengers, merchants, and the community, to solve critical problems in Southeast Asia.

Grab began as a taxi-hailing app in 2012, but we have since extended our product platform to include GrabCar, GrabShare, GrabBike, GrabHitch, GrabExpress, GrabFood, GrabCoach, GrabShuttle, GrabCycle. We recently launched our fintech platform – GrabFinancial, which consists of payments, lending and insurance. Our latest addition is GrabVentures, an in-house incubation platform. We are focused on pioneering new commuting and payment alternatives for drivers and passengers with an emphasis on convenience, safety, and reliability. Currently, we offer services in 8 countries. Our R&D offices are in Singapore, Seattle, Beijing, Bangalore, Jakarta and Vietnam. We aspire to unlock the true potential of Southeast Asia and look for like-minded individuals to join us on this ride.

If you share our vision of driving South East Asia forward, apply to join our team today.