Software Engineer, Backend
Job Description
Get to Know the Team
The Fulfilment tech family is one of the most important pillars ensuring Grab to out-serve our customers and partners in different businesses and marketplaces across Southeast Asia. We are working on high throughput, real-time distributed systems that use machine learning techniques to solve hundreds of millions of requests per day.
Our mission is to offer the best products and experiences to our driver partners as to increase adoption and engagement of our services. Improve driver partner opportunities and efficiency to fulfil customer orders without fail, rain or shine. And to create efficient marketplaces by determining a price that is both sustainable and loved by our partners and customers.
Our team members are from Indonesia and Singapore.
Get to Know the Role
We are looking for a passionate and potential software engineer to join our team. You will have opportunities to work with a small team of engineers on multiple backend service clusters. It is very important that our team members to initiatively identify problems and have the right mindset and skills to solve them.
You will be reporting to Software Engineering Manager II, Backend. This role will be a 2-Years Fixed-Term Contract under Grab and will be base onsite in our Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia office.
The Critical Tasks You Will Perform
• Develop and maintain backend services and APIs with a focus on reliability and scalability.
• Write efficient database queries (e.g., MySQL, Presto) and optimize system performance through profiling and troubleshooting.
• Contribute to projects on cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and support deployments through CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement and maintain automated testing (unit, integration, and end-to-end) to ensure code quality.
• Gain exposure to distributed computing frameworks such as Apache Flink, while building services in Golang and Scala.
• Collaborate with senior engineers and cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality technical solutions.
Requirements
Function: Engineering
Experience Level: Associate