Lead Software Engineer, Backend

6 days ago


Singapore GRABTAXI HOLDINGS PTE. LTD. Full time $180,000 - $250,000 per year

Job Description

Get to Know the Team

The Mobility team is an established team responsible for the ride-hailing module in the Grab app. We improve the core transport booking experience. We are made up of diversified engineers. 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 passengers to increase adoption and engagement of our services. Our team has direct end-user contact, and impact on the bottom line for Grab.

Get to Know the Role

We are looking for an experienced and passionate Lead Software Engineer to join our team. You will be reporting to Senior Software Engineering Manager. You will work on the critical backend services that are used by Grab users to place a ride. You'll also will create amazing passenger app experiences that are used by Grab user to place bookings. We have exciting product ideas and engineering challenges awaiting your participation, and you will be the first one experiencing your own work in the Grab app

This role is onsite based in our One-North headquarters, Singapore office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

  • Collaborate with Product, Design, and Analytics teams to understand requirements, provide feedback, and define timelines.
  • Work with Android, iOS, Backend, QA, and ML Engineers to design and implement scalable technical solutions.
  • Write reusable, scalable, testable code, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality features.
  • You will review code and engineering specs, provide constructive feedback and aim to raise the engineering bar.
  • You will be responsible and responsive during on-call duty. Triage, debug, mitigate and fix complex issues. Assist on ad hoc queries from other teams.
  • You will mentor junior engineers and contribute to the team's overall growth and knowledge sharing

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

  • You have a total of 6+ years of professional software development experience.
  • You have experience with Go programming language.
  • You have written extensible code for assigned tasks and pick the right abstractions that follow SOLID principles. Understand data structures and algorithms and recognize when to use them.
  • You have good Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures.
  • You have worked in high scale reliable and available backend services.


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