Senior Software Engineer, Backend

**Job Description**:
**Get to know the team**:
**Get to know the role**:
**We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to take part of the CX Team. You will be responsible for ensuring high quality deliverables, spanning across multiple key services powering end to end user journeys going from the login screen to the home and activity pages of the Grab app. These services are one of the top entry points for Grab services, with millions of visitors every day across 8 countries in total.**

**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**
- **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**
- **Pro-actively debug and solve production incidents during your oncall shift**
- **Participate in interview loops to help Grab continue hiring top industry talent**
- **Provide technical guidance, mentorship and knowledge sharing to peers.**

**The Must-Haves**:

- **A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or related fields**
- **5+ years of experience in software engineering in a distributed systems environment**
- **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.**
- **Our mobile app platform coverage includes native iOS, Android, written in Swift, RxJava and Flutter. 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 GitLab CI, DataDog, Code Climate, Papertrail, Gemnasium, JFrog and Jenkins.**

**About 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. When you're an engineer at Grab, you are part of the heart and soul of the company. Our passion is anchored in the work that we do, and this is reflected in the impact we make on millions of lives on a daily basis. Our team is empowered by creating amazing services and tools that serve millions of passengers, driving partners, and fellow grabbers.**

**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.