2 days ago
Beijing, ChinaSenior
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Product, Design, Analytics, Operations, QA, ML, Android, iOS, backend, and partner-facing teams to define and implement scalable technical solutions.
- Design, build, test, and operate reusable backend systems for high-throughput, real-time Mobility workloads.
- Review code and engineering specifications and provide constructive feedback to improve engineering quality.
- Participate in on-call duty by triaging, debugging, mitigating, and fixing complex production issues.
- Improve service reliability, observability, operational readiness, deployment safety, capacity planning, and postmortem follow-up.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team growth and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
- At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience in distributed systems environments.
- Proficiency in at least one backend programming language such as Go, C++, or Python.
- Strong computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, and system design.
- Experience designing and operating high-throughput or real-time distributed systems.
- Understanding of production failure modes including partial failures, timeouts, retries, duplicate events, eventual consistency, and dependency degradation.
- Knowledge of relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB, MongoDB, or Cassandra.
- Hands-on experience with production observability, including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting, and runbooks.
- Understanding of reliability practices including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, safe deployments, rollback strategies, capacity planning, and postmortems.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, containers, infrastructure automation, and modern delivery practices.
- Ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical functions, communicate trade-offs clearly, and take ownership of outcomes.
Benefits
- Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
- GrabFlex customizable benefits package.
- Parental leave, Birthday leave, and Love-all-Serve-all volunteering leave.
- Confidential Grabber Assistance Programme.
- FlexWork arrangements with differentiated hours.
- Onsite work in the Beijing, China office.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendSite Reliability
About Grab
Grab builds a Southeast Asia superapp for mobility, deliveries, and financial services, serving consumers, drivers, merchants, and enterprises. It monetizes via ride and delivery commissions, merchant services (such as ads and subscriptions), and payments and digital banking products. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Singapore, Grab operates across multiple Southeast Asian markets and is publicly listed on NASDAQ.