Senior Software Engineer, Backend

1 Month ago • 5 Years +
Backend Development

Job Description

Join Grab's inclusive engineering team, contributing to the core mission of impacting hundreds of millions of lives daily, specifically enhancing the Payments SDK for features like Add Payment, Listing, and Transactions. As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend, you will design, deliver, and maintain high-quality, scalable payment solutions, reporting to an Engineering Manager II. This role is onsite in Bangalore, focusing on innovation and improving one of Southeast Asia's most widely used apps.
Good To Have:
  • Relevant certifications for cloud platforms (AWS or GCP).
Must Have:
  • Design and write Go code to enhance service availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency.
  • Collaborate with the engineering team on new architectures and participate in code and design reviews.
  • Contribute to service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning, and optimization.
  • Work closely with the infrastructure team to build and scale backend services, and perform root cause analysis during investigations.
  • Proactively debug and resolve production incidents during on-call shifts, and provide technical guidance and mentorship to peers.
  • Collaborate with product and design teams to define and prototype feature specifications, while ensuring and site reliability.
  • At least 5 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree, or an advanced degree.
  • Proficiency in Golang, with a deep understanding of its syntax, semantics, standard libraries, concurrency features, and experience in optimizing applications.
  • Experience with RDBMS technologies like MySQL and PostgreSQL, including expertise in database performance, query tuning, and reliability.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP, with knowledge in designing scalable, internet-scale microservices.
  • Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, along with experience in automating infrastructure.
  • Strong skills in development practices such as TDD, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery, utilizing tools like GIT, Jenkins, and unit testing frameworks.
Perks:
  • Term Life Insurance
  • Comprehensive Medical Insurance
  • GrabFlex (customizable benefits package)
  • Parental leave
  • Birthday leave
  • Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
  • Confidential Grabber Assistance Programme

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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

Join our inclusive engineering team at Grab, where your work will be at the core of our mission to positively impact hundreds of millions of lives daily. We're motivated by a passion for innovation, especially in enhancing our Payments SDK, which handles core capabilities like Add Payment, Listing, Transactions, etc. As part of our team, you'll contribute to consumer and partner-facing features, and your code will quickly reach a vast audience. We value diverse perspectives and fresh ideas, giving you the opportunity to improve one of Southeast Asia's most widely used apps.

Get to know the role

As such, we are seeking experienced & passionate Engineers to join our team, As part of Grab's payment's team you will be responsible of designing, delivering and maintaining high quality and scalable solutions to meet the payments needs of Grab. You will be reporting to Engineering Manager II

Workplace Type: This role will be onsite and based in the Bangalore office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform:

  • Design and write Go code to enhance the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of services.
  • Collaborate with the engineering team to develop new architectures aimed at scale and performance, and participate in code and design reviews to uphold.
  • Contribute to service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning, and optimization.
  • Work closely with the infrastructure team to build and scale backend services, and perform root cause analysis during investigations.
  • Proactively debug and resolve production incidents during on-call shifts, and provide technical guidance and mentorship to peers.
  • Collaborate with product and design teams to define and prototype feature specifications, while ensuring and site reliability

Qualifications

The Essential Skills You Will Need:

  • At least 5 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree, or an advanced degree.
  • Proficiency in Golang, with a deep understanding of its syntax, semantics, standard libraries, concurrency features, and experience in optimizing applications.
  • Experience with RDBMS technologies like MySQL and PostgreSQL, including expertise in database performance, query tuning, and reliability.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP, with knowledge in designing scalable, internet-scale microservices. Relevant certifications are a plus.
  • Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, along with experience in automating infrastructure.
  • Strong skills in development practices such as TDD, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery, utilizing tools like GIT, Jenkins, and unit testing frameworks.

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.

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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