Software Engineer, Full Stack

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. If you’re passionate about solving complex problems with immediate real-world impact, we want you! You’ll be working closely with the Product, Design and Backend teams, on everything from new features for the end user (web apps for passengers, drivers, merchants, and internal web portals), new platforms, maintaining existing features and experiences, to continuous improvements with optimizations and experiments.

Get to know the Role:

• Design, implement & manage web apps that impact millions of users

• Experience a shipping culture that uses the state of the art web technologies

• Grow in an environment passionate about knowledge-sharing and code review

• Learn software engineering practices for coding at scale: static analysis, feature flags, instrumentation, and more

The day-to-day activities:

• Design and implement RESTful APIs

• Build and deploy performant modern web applications in React, Redux, Webpack, ES6, and Flow

• Architect efficient and scalable backend systems

• Write unit, functional and end-to-end tests

• Write high-quality code (Ruby on Rails, Go) that communicates with upstream backend services via HTTP APIs

• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues

• Participate in code and design reviews

The must haves:

• Experience shipping web applications to production

• Familiarity with the whole web stack, web protocols, and web performance optimisation techniques

• In-depth understanding of web frameworks (such as Rails, Django, etc)

• Detailed knowledge of minimum one modern JavaScript framework: React, Ember, Angular, etc

• Proficient with at least one language commonly used for backend services development (C++, C, C#, Java etc.), but willing to work on Golang

• Proficient understanding of the HTTP protocol

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience with ES6/ES2015 or ES7/ES2016

• Experience with React, Redux/Flow

• Experience with at least one CSS preprocessor: Sass, Less, PostCSS, Stylus, etc

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.

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.