Software Engineer, Backend

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 AV Integrations & Deployments (AVID) team builds the integration services, operational tools, and fleet management portal that connect Grab with a diverse fleet of autonomous vehicles. From developing APIs and large-scale telemetry ingestion to real-time fleet monitoring, safety workflows, and depot operations, we ensure that AV technologies from multiple partners can be deployed safely, reliably, and at scale across our ecosystem.

Our mission is to make Grab the indispensable operating partner for AV fleets in Southeast Asia, building the platform and guide that defines how hybrid human and robot fleets operate in the region.

Get to know the Role:

As a backend engineer, you will help design and building world class API standards for fleet operation and integration with different AV partners. You will collaborate with global AV partners and fleet operation teams to grow hybrid human-robot fleets in the region.

You will report to the Head of Engineering and will be onsite at Grab One-north office.

What you'll do

• Build and scale robust backend systems for the AV fleet operation. Integrate with multiple AV partners' APIs and protocols (REST/gRPC/Protobuf), telematics providers, and fleet systems to unify vehicle lifecycle, status, and control surfaces.
• Design and operate low-latency telemetry ingestion and processing pipelines (Kafka/Flink or similar) for location, diagnostics, events, and time-series metrics.
• Develop performant backend services (Go/Python), real-time interfaces using WebSocket/Server-Sent Events/streamable HTTP and gRPC.
• Apply reliability, observability, and safety practices (SLOs, metrics, tracing, and alerting). Join on-call rotations, run incident response, root-cause analysis, and contribute to post-mortems.
• Design infrastructure with Terraform on AWS/Azure; build CI/CD pipelines and automate testing and deployments.
• Model and store operational and time-series data (e.g., Postgres/TimescaleDB/ClickHouse) to power dashboards, analytics, and operational workflows.
• Uphold security and privacy-by-design (authN/authZ, secrets management, least-privilege, secure partner integrations, PII/video handling).
• Collaborate with product managers, data analysts, designers, and operations teams to define features, ship iteratively, and measure the impact. Write clear technical documentation.
• Work in a regional organisation, partnering across diverse teams and cultures.

Qualifications

Technical must-haves

• Computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, multithreading, distributed systems, relational and non-relational databases.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure) and hands-on experience deploying scalable backend services.
• 2+ years of experience with real-time data processing using Kafka/Flink or similar streaming technologies.
• A shift-left testing mindset: unit, integration, and automated testing as part of CI/CD.

Soft skills must-haves

• Experienced collaborate across teams and regions.
• Leveragethinking and system design expertise to ensure solutions meet rigorous standards for scalability and reliability.
• Effectively manage workload and adjusting priorities as project needs evolve.
• Ensure technical knowledge is well-maintained by producing clear, precise, and user-friendly documentation..

Nice-to-haves

• Familiarity with running large-scale go backend services and understanding of systems internals and networking.
• Experience with streaming media and real-time communications (RTSP/RTP, HLS/DASH, WebRTC) and related performance/security considerations.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, serialisation formats (Protobuf/Avro), and time-series or OLAP data stores.
• Hands-on experience with Go programming language.
• Hands-on experience with AWS/Azure and cost/operability best practices.
• Hands-on experience with Flink/Kafka and stateful stream processing.
• Background in safety-critical or regulated environments, privacy-by-design, and threat modelling.

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.