Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Get to Know the Team

Join the FundsCore Platform team at Grab - a dynamic team building a reliable platform to address challenging problems in the Payments domain. We are a team of engineers, designers, product managers, and operations. We innovate and collaborate to solve one of the most challenging problems: ensuring accurate settlement to large numbers of merchants. This role prefers you have certain Payments domain expertise or demonstrate quick-learning skills.

Get to Know the Role

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to join our growing engineering team. In this role, you'll design, build, and operate backend services that power critical business applications at scale. You'll work collaboratively with product managers, designers, and cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality features while driving operational excellence and mentoring fellow engineers. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact by architecting innovative solutions in a supportive environment.

You will report to the Engineering Manager II based in Singapore and work onsite and CMC Creative Space office, HCMC.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Design and implement scalable, reliable backend services using modern programming languages and frameworks, with a focus on performance, cost-efficiency, and maintainability
• Own delivery of features and projects, including requirements clarification, technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and post-launch monitoring
• Lead and participate in technical discussions and design reviews, making thoughtful trade-offs between reliability, latency, throughput, and cost
• Instrumenting services with comprehensive metrics, logs, and traces; define SLIs/SLOs; improve alerting strategies; and perform capacity planning and performance optimization
• Collaborate with other teams to design end-to-end workflows that are secure, scalable, and user-centric
• Contribute to engineering excellence by improving CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, documentation standards, and design practices within the team
• Mentor other engineers through constructive code reviews, knowledge sharing, and best practice guidance in design, coding, and operational excellence
• Participate in on-call rotations and handle production incidents
• Support hiring initiatives by conducting technical interviews and helping refine interview processes and guidelines

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or an advanced degree. Good Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures.
• 5+ years of professional experience in backend software development.
• Proficiency in Golang, with an understanding of its syntax, semantics, standard libraries, concurrency features, and experience optimizing applications.
• Experience with RDBMS technologies like MySQL and PostgreSQL, including expertise in database performance, query tuning, and reliability.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP, with knowledge in designing scalable, internet-scale microservices.
• Fluent in English both verbally and written.
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, along with experience automating infrastructure.
• Skills in development practices such as TDD, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery, using tools like GIT, Jenkins, and unit testing frameworks.
• Experience applying AI-assisted software development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, or similar tools to improve engineering productivity across coding, debugging, testing, refactoring, and code review.
• Experience leveraging AI tools to improve production engineering workflows, including incident investigation, root cause analysis, troubleshooting, and system design.

Additional Information

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

What We Stand For at Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that enables diverse Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.