Lead Software Engineer

Get to Know the Team

As a Lead Engineer in our team, you would architect, implement, and roll out our next generation of Grab platform for merchants.

Get to Know the Role

The Business Platform tech family is an engineering team which is responsible for multiple key products for Grab Merchant Partners (e.g GrabMerchant App, GrabMerchant Portal). We are running on a micro-service architecture in backend and are also providing multiple frontend techniques (e.g. IOS, ADR, Flutter, Web) for our end users (e.g. Merchants, to-B partners) across 7 countries. We are aiming to provide a high quality, stable, and efficient platform for merchants, and extend our platform to support offline transactions for merchants.

You are expected to understand the requirements from different partners, and work with the team to design and improve the system architecture which could adapt to multiple business flows, and also serve high throughput (thousands of QPS) at millisecond latencies. You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager and be based onsite in our Singapore One North Office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Develop APIs, interfaces, and database schemas to ensure scalability, maintainability, and performance across the Business services domain.
• Design, implement, instrument, and deploy available services with tight Service level agreements, and champion for operational excellence across projects.
• Collaborate with partners across teams and roles, to resolve ambiguous, multi dimensional business, legal, and product needs to ensure Business Platform architectures are not just performant and usable, but also compliant.
• Lead architecture reviews, code reviews, design reviews, postmortems, and improve for engineering best practices across teams and tech families.
• Identify process gaps and establish engineering processes — project management, collaboration, code quality.
• Mentor and be a role model for junior engineers.
• Participate in interview loops to help Grab continue hiring top industry talent.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• 7+ years of relevant experience.
• Prior experience designing, implementing and maintaining critical backend services with tight SLAs, at scale.
• Proficient in at least one programming language for backend services Go, Java or C++.
• Knowledge in distributed systems design and internals.
• Prior experience with any / all of Kafka, ElasticSearch, Redis, MySql, Aurora, and managed cloud services (specifically, AWS and Azure).
• Experience approaching a problem from different angles, analyzing pros and cons of different solutions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.