Software Engineer, Backend (Application Data Platform, Data Engineering)

Get to know the team:
The Application Data Platform team develops software and services for all of Grab’s engineering teams to access their business critical data in many different SQL and NoSQL application backends through easy-to-use APIs and access controls. The platform provides ORM-capabilities and Information Security for applications and services.

Get to know the Role:
This hands-on team develops server-and-client-side tools and services that allow application developers to design their data-access patterns and secure access to the data stored in database systems like MySql, Postgres, DynamoDB, Cassandra etc. The Application Data Platform is used by almost every team at Grab and our highly available infrastructure scales along with the applications.  You'll be working with partner engineering teams to ensure that they can get the data they want, quickly, reliably, and securely while providing authorization and auditing capabilities.

The day-to-day activities:
-Design, develop, and help maintain the services and tools that are part of the application data platform
-Collaborate across stakeholders such application developers, and department heads to deliver a technical solution that meets their unique needs
-Work with customer teams to define and prototype feature specifications
-Work with infrastructure teams in building and scaling back-end services, as well as performing root cause analysis investigations
-Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization
 

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 communities
Hunger - 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.