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Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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10 hours ago
Jakarta, IndonesiaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate scalable backend services in Go.
  • Use AI-assisted workflows to plan, implement, test, debug, document, and prepare review-ready merge requests.
  • Validate AI-generated solutions for correctness, security, performance, maintainability, and engineering-standard alignment.
  • Lead AI-enabled initiatives that improve developer productivity and delivery quality.
  • Develop architectures for scale and performance and participate in code and design reviews.
  • Perform capacity planning, performance analysis, tuning, and optimization for large-scale services.
  • Collaborate with product, design, infrastructure, and engineering teams on feature specifications, scaling, and root-cause investigations.
  • Diagnose distributed-systems problems and resolve production incidents during on-call rotations.
  • Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and knowledge sharing to other engineers.
  • Own product and technical problems end to end while monitoring agreed success metrics.

Requirements

  • A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
  • At least 5 years of software engineering experience, preferably with distributed systems.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals, including algorithms and data structures.
  • Experience operating large-scale web services and understanding of systems internals and networking.
  • Strong understanding of system performance, reliability, and scalability.
  • Proficiency in at least one of Go, C++, Java, Scala, Rust, Python, Ruby, Node.js, or C#, with willingness to work with Go.
  • Experience using AI-assisted engineering workflows to turn specifications into review-ready merge requests.
  • Ability to critically evaluate AI-generated solutions for correctness, security, maintainability, and engineering-standard alignment.
  • Ability to identify and lead AI-enabled technical initiatives with measurable impact across one or more teams.

Benefits

  • Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
  • GrabFlex benefits package customization.
  • Parental leave, Birthday leave, and Love-all-Serve-all volunteering leave.
  • Grabber Assistance Programme for employees and their loved ones.
  • FlexWork arrangements with differentiated hours.
  • On-site work arrangement based in Jakarta.

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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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