Software Engineering Manager II, Backend

4 days ago


North Region, Singapore GRABTAXI HOLDINGS PTE. LTD. Full time $150,000 - $200,000 per year

Company Description

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.

Job Description

Get to Know the Team

The Fulfilment tech family is one of the 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 an optimal price that is both sustainable and loved by our partners and customers.

Get to Know the Role

Lead a team of backend and data engineers, defining the strategy, roadmap, and technical vision, while promoting the professional growth of your team members to shape the future of our backend and data platforms by leading a remote engineering team, setting technical direction, and driving collaboration.

You will report to the Senior Software Engineering Manager.

This role is onsite at Grab office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

  • Design and write with the cutting edge GO language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab's range of services
  • Lead the 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
  • Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications
  • Work with infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services and performing root cause analysis investigations
  • Develop and optimize large-scale systems, including analysis and debugging

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

  • 5+ years of experience with system performance and scaling
  • Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures
  • Hands-on familiarity with running large-scale distributed web services; understanding of systems internals and networking
  • You can be a good coder in any languages but willing to work on Golang and Scala (Flink)
  • Explain technical findings in verbal and written formats.
  • Analyse system performance and stability to propose scalable design solutions.

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.



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