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Lead Software Engineer, Backend

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12 hours ago
Singapore, SingaporeStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and operation of scalable, maintainable, and reliable backend services and platform components.
  • Translate product requirements into technical solutions and drive design discussions and architectural trade-offs.
  • Maintain high standards for testing, performance, observability, code quality, and code reviews.
  • Partner with product, business, mobile, web, data, and infrastructure teams on end-to-end challenges.
  • Improve service reliability through monitoring, proactive system health fixes, incident response, and root cause analysis.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation and take ownership during production incidents.
  • Guide engineers through technical coaching, design reviews, and knowledge sharing.
  • Drive improvements in engineering processes, developer productivity, and overall system health.

Requirements

  • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10+ years of software development experience and a history of delivering successful solutions across teams.
  • Proficiency in Go, including writing idiomatic, testable, and maintainable code.
  • Hands-on experience writing and operating backend microservices.
  • Familiarity with HTTP/gRPC, MySQL, Redis, Kubernetes, Istio, DataDog, Kibana, and Grafana.
  • Working knowledge of Git and GitLab for version control and CI/CD collaboration.

Benefits

  • Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
  • GrabFlex flexible benefits package.
  • Parental leave, Birthday leave, and Love-all-Serve-all volunteering leave.
  • FlexWork arrangements with differentiated hours.
  • Position based in Singapore.

Tech Stack

DatadogGitGoGrafanagRPCIstioKibanaKubernetesMySQLRedis

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About Grab

10,000+ employees

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.

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