Senior Software Engineer, Frontend

Get to know the Role:

• Make an impact as the lead UI engineer for a AI-based business optimization tool

• Design, develop and maintain web applications

• Coordinate with stakeholders from Product, Design, Finance and other teams to translate business requirements into software designs and implementations

• Discuss and propose solution to improve User Experience

• Estimate and timely deliver software systems

• Develop maintainable and reusable systems

• Adopt and evolve best engineering practices

The day-to-day activities:

• Write high-quality web applications that delight end-users of the product

• Develop dynamic and responsive web interfaces using React framework

• Develop reusable web components

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

• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issue

• Convert from design/prototype to responsive interface on the web

• 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

• Design, build, analyze and fix large-scale systems

• Debug and modify complex, production software

The Must Haves:

• At least 5 years of professional experience shipping web applications to production

• A proactive approach in terms of getting things done in a fast-paced environment

• Taking ownership and responsibility of components and modules.

• Ability to work directly with stakeholders

• Good UI design sense to help direct to the UX and UI design for users

• Being a team player and helping the team achieve shared objectives

• Familiarity with the entire web stack (frontend, backend and database), and web performance optimization techniques

• Good understanding of modern web frameworks

• Experience with React framework

• Knowledge of web security and performance

• Knowledge and experience with Software Design patterns

• Knowledge and experience with Application Integration patterns

Nice to have:

• Full stack engineering experience. You’ll be working directly with the backend engineering team to negotiate APIs

• Familiarity with build and deployment concepts

• Familiarity with cloud systems such as Azure or AWS

• Experience with web application security and performance tuning

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.