Software Engineer, Backend

**Job Description**:
**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**
GrabAds allows Advertisers, Agencies, and Merchants to engage the Grab Audience via innovative online advertising experiences. Through our unique ecosystem and transacting user base, our clients are able to reach their desired audiences at scale, while driving measurable business outcomes.

**Get to know the Role**
We would want to invite talented and passionate engineers to join our journey, to create value for our users, drivers, merchants, and advertising partners, while continuing to make everyday lives better across Southeast Asia. As part of the Ads Billing & Reporting team, you will have opportunities to work on multiple backend service clusters which deal with business critical functions such as billing and auto settlement of our Advertisers. You will also get to work on real time systems and data pipelines which are implemented in Scala and run using Spark. It is very important that our team members take initiatives to identify problems, and have the right mindset and skill sets to solve them.

**The Day-to-Day Activities**:

- Design and write with the cutting edge GO language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab's range of services
- Design and write data pipelines implemented using Scala.
- Work with engineering team to explore and create new design / architectures geared towards scale and performance
- Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards
- Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization
- Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications
- Work closely with infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services as well as performing root cause analysis investigations
- Design, build, analyze and fix large-scale systems
- Debug and modify complex, production software

**The Must-Haves**:

- A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or related fields
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures
- Familiarity with running large scale web services; understanding of systems internals and networking are a plus
- Strong understanding of system performance and scaling
- Possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills, able to think critically of the current system in terms of growth and stability
- You can be a good coder in any language (C++, C, Java, Scala, Rust, Haskell, OCaml, Erlang, Python, Ruby, PHP, Node.JS, C# etc.), but willing to work on Golang

**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. For data processing we use Apache Spark. Our mobile app platform coverage includes native iOS and Android, written in Swift and RxJava. Our Command Center front-end is built on Rails, HTML5, CSS and Javascript. 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. These include Travis CI, New Relic, PullReview, Code Climate, Papertrail, Gemnasium, JFrog and Jenkins.

**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.

**About Grab**

Grab is the leading superapp platform in Southeast Asia, providing everyday services that matter to consumers. Today, the Grab app has been downloaded onto millions of mobile devices, giving users access to over 9 million drivers, merchants, and agents. Grab offers a wide range of on-demand services in the region, including mobility, food, package and grocery delivery services, mobile payments, and financial services across 428 cities in eight countries.

**Join us today to drive Southeast Asia forward, together.