About Grab and Our Workplace
Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.
Get to know our Team
The Mobility team is responsible for the Transport module in the Grab app. We continuously improve the core transport booking experience.
We are working on high throughput, real-time distributed systems that use machine learning techniques to solve hundreds of millions of requests per day. Our mission is to offer the best products and experiences to our passengers to increase adoption and engagement of our services.
Get to know the Role
Reporting to Software Engineering Manager, you will work on the critical backend services that are used by Grab users to place a ride. You will also create amazing web application experiences that are used by Grab clients to place web bookings. Besides, you will have opportunities to work on multiple backend services and frontend web applications, and participating in immersions, talking directly to the end-users, identifying their challenges and how we can help them in their work life.
This is an onsite role and our office is based in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.
The Critical Tasks You Will Perform
You will work with Product/Design/Analytics teams to understand problems, requirements, provide feedback, options, trade offs, and timelines.
You will collaborate with Android/IOS/Backend/QA/ML Engineers to brainstorm and implement technical solutions that are scalable and addressing the actual problems.
You will write code that is reusable, scalable and testable. Make sure features are delivered on time and with high quality.
You will review code and engineering specs, provide constructive feedback and aim to raise the engineering bar.
You will be responsible and responsive during on-call duty.
You will debug and fix complex issues, and be able to assist on ad hoc queries from other teams.
You will identify pain points and inefficiencies in codebase, system, and process, propose action items to address them.
The Must-Haves
At least 2 years of professional software development experience.
Experience with the JavaScript programming language.
Good Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures.
Experience with web frameworks such as React.js.
Experience with defect tracking tools and version control.
Experience in at least one backend language like Go, Python, Scala, Java, C++, or others is required. You can be a good coder in any language but must be willing to work on Golang
Knowledge of software development best practices, including version control (Git), unit testing, and CI/CD pipelines.
Life at Grab
We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:
We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
What we stand for at Grab
We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.#J-18808-Ljbffr