Responsibilities
- Transform the software development lifecycle by embedding AI and autonomous agents across requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, operations, and incident response.
- Establish platforms, context and knowledge systems, evaluation frameworks, testing strategies, and guardrails for safe, scalable, higher-autonomy engineering.
- Architect high-throughput, highly available distributed systems and address scalability, reliability, resilience, performance, security, and cost challenges.
- Build common platform capabilities and reusable primitives adopted across multiple products, business lines, and engineering organisations.
- Create reference architectures, engineering principles, reusable patterns, and technical guardrails that enable teams to operate autonomously.
- Lead cross-team architectural initiatives and influence senior engineers, engineering leaders, product leaders, and data scientists without direct reporting authority.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering and system design.
- At least 5+ years of experience in principal engineer or architect roles.
- Experience driving AI-enabled engineering transformation involving coding agents, agentic workflows, context and knowledge systems, automated testing, evaluations, and engineering guardrails.
- Experience architecting and scaling large distributed systems and platforms serving millions of users with demanding reliability and availability requirements.
- Experience building or leading shared platform capabilities adopted across multiple products, business lines, or engineering organisations.
- Experience leading cross-team architectural initiatives and influencing senior technical leaders without relying on direct reporting authority.
Benefits
- Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
- GrabFlex benefits package customization.
- Parental leave, Birthday leave, and Love-all-Serve-all volunteering leave.
- Confidential Grabber Assistance Programme.
- FlexWork arrangements, including differentiated hours.
- Inclusive and equitable equal-opportunity workplace.
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About Grab
Grab is Southeast Asia’s leading superapp, offering a suite of services consisting of deliveries, mobility, financial services, enterprise and others. Grabbers come from all over the world, and we are united by a common mission: to drive Southeast Asia forward by creating economic empowerment for everyone. At Grab, every Grabber is guided by The Grab Way, which explains our mission and the operating principles on how we can achieve it together. We call these principles the 4Hs: Heart We work together as OneGrab to serve communities in Southeast Asia Hunger We work to understand ground truths and drive improvements, big and small Honour We keep our word and steward our resources wisely to build and sustain trust Humility We are a constant work-in-progress, and we never stop learning to get better