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Lead Software Engineer, Backend

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18 days ago
Singapore, SingaporeStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and operation of scalable, maintainable, and reliable backend services and platform components.
  • Translate product and business requirements into technical solutions while driving design discussions and architectural trade-offs.
  • Maintain high-quality code through testing, performance improvements, observability, and rigorous code reviews.
  • Partner with product, business, mobile, web, data, and infrastructure teams to solve end-to-end user and system challenges.
  • Improve service reliability through monitoring, proactive system health fixes, incident response, root cause analysis, and on-call participation.
  • Coach engineers through technical guidance, design reviews, and knowledge sharing.
  • Drive improvements in engineering processes, developer productivity, and overall system health.

Requirements

  • A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10+ years of software development experience and a record of delivering successful cross-team solutions.
  • 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 benefits package customization.
  • Parental leave, Birthday leave, and Love-all-Serve-all volunteering leave.
  • FlexWork arrangements with differentiated hours.
  • The role is onsite 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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