Software Engineer

Life at Grab

At Grab, every Grabber is guided by The Grab Way, which spells out our mission, how we believe we can achieve it, and our operating principles - the 4Hs : Heart, Hunger, Honour and Humility. These principles guide and help us make decisions as we work to create economic empowerment for the people of Southeast Asia.

Get to know the Team

This position is within the Grab for Business Enterprise team; we're rapidly growing our team! Join us to revamp a web + mobile integrated solution used by enterprise customers and employees to access Grab offerings such as ride hailing, food deliveries, gift cards and more.

You will be part of a new, exciting journey; experience the full lifecycle of (re-)building a successful product from the ground up. You will also get to work with diverse teams across various regions, on the latest technology stacks, at massive scale with millions of end users.

Get to know the Role

Design, implement & manage web apps that impact millions of users

Experience a shipping culture that uses the state of the art web technologies

Grow in an environment passionate about knowledge-sharing and code review

Learn software engineering practices for coding at scale : static analysis, feature flags, instrumentation, and more

The Day-to-Day Activities

Design and implement RESTful APIs

Build and deploy performant modern web applications in React, Redux, Webpack, ES6, and Flow

Architect efficient and scalable backend systems

Write unit, functional and end-to-end tests

Write high-quality code (Ruby on Rails, Go) that communicates with upstream backend services via HTTP APIs

Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues

Participate in code and design reviews

The Must-Haves

03 years+ of working experience shipping web applications to production (focus on Back-end)

Familiarity with the whole web stack, web protocols, and web performance optimisation techniques

In-depth understanding of web frameworks (such as Rails, Django, etc)

Detailed knowledge of minimum one modern JavaScript framework : React, Ember, Angular, etc

Proficient with at least one language commonly used for backend services development (C++, C, C#, Java etc.), but willing to work on Golang

Proficient understanding of the HTTP protocol

The Nice-to-Haves

Experience with ES6 / ES2015 or ES7 / ES2016

Experience with React, Redux / Flow

Experience with at least one CSS preprocessor : Sass, Less, PostCSS, Stylus, etc

Tech Stack

Our core services tech stack consists of Golang with Redis, MySQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch data stores as well as HAProxy load balancers. They all run on the AWS cloud infrastructure with auto-scaling abilities. We use GitHub for our code repository and we adhere to the basic Continuous Delivery tenets utilising a host of tools to support our release pipeline and code quality.

Our Commitment

We are committed to building diverse teams and creating an inclusive workplace that enables all Grabbers to perform at their best, regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity or sexual orientation and other attributes that make each Grabber unique.