Software Engineering Manager - Backend

Get to know our Team:

Grab operates a multi-sided marketplace for passengers, drivers, and merchants. Pricing works as an essential economic lever to facilitate the transaction for all players. The objective of the pricing team is to set the optimal price to deliver value (efficiency, sustainability, delightful experiences) to Grab and our customers.

In this exciting opportunity, you would be laying down a multi-year strategy to improve the reliability and efficiency of our pricing systems to achieve 99.99+ availability. You would also be inheriting a highly functional engineering team as well as outlining career progression for every individual on the team to set them up for success.

Get to know the Role:

• Lead a team of Software Engineers working on critical, customer-facing Pricing service.

• Establish engineering best practices and participate in code/architecture reviews.

• Hands-on web services development in Golang.

• Strategic roadmap planning in collaboration with product, product analytics, data science.

• Increase the overall velocity of the team by addressing the tech debts in the existing systems.

• Establish effective paging to support critical services during extended business hours.

• Communicate high-level strategy and technical details effectively across disciplines, locations, and organizations, including senior leadership.

• Deliver results at high quality and on-time.

• Recruit high-quality engineering talent for the team.

The must-haves:

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related engineering field.

• 10+ years of software development management experience with 3+ years of experience in directly managing 10+ engineers.

• Hands-on programming and technical design skills.

• Experience with backend technologies: Golang, Redis, Elasticsearch, MySQL.

• Experience in Machine Learning.

• Ability to plan long into the future, but deliver incremental value now.

• Have a track record of designing, developing and implementing complex, low-latency, web services with over one million users.

• Experience leading large teams of engineers and driving large-scale, mission-critical projects and products, in collaboration with product, design and commercial teams, to succeed.

• Able to attract, develop, and keep high-quality multi-disciplinary teams.

• Belief in quality over quantity.

• Strong communication skills and can act as an advisor, coach, mentor, and partner all at the same time.

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.