The Day-to-Day Activities
End-to-End System Ownership: Independently designs, builds, and operates high-quality software systems, ensuring they are secure, reliable, maintainable, and rigorously tested.
Architectural & Operational Excellence: Applies advanced architectural patterns and infrastructure best practices, while maintaining accountability for post-deployment monitoring and system health.
Strategic Stakeholder Partnership: Collaborates effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, actively contributing to the entire product lifecycle from initial design to final rollout.
Process Optimization: Proactively identifies and implements improvements to team workflows and engineering processes to enhance overall efficiency and delivery.
Mentorship & Team Growth: Acts as a senior leader by mentoring junior engineers and fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional development within the team.
What Essential Skills You Will Need
8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong hands-on proficiency in Python and/or Go.
Deep expertise in designing, building, and maintaining distributed backend architectures and microservices.
Proven track record with core backend infrastructure, including relational and NoSQL databases, caching layers (e.g., Redis), and message brokers/event streaming (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ).
Strong expertise in RESTful API design, contract management, and service-to-service communication (e.g., gRPC).
Solid foundation in system design, high-availability architecture, and performance optimization at scale.
Practical experience deploying and managing services on modern cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), adhering to CI/CD and DevOps best practices.
Proactive learner with strong ownership, keeping pace with emerging backend patterns and AI technologies.
Hands-on experience building Generative AI applications or AI Agent workflows using frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, or LlamaIndex.
Practical knowledge of RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines and vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Milvus, Qdrant, pgvector).
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 provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.
