Software Engineer, Backend

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 the Team

The Fulfillment tech family is one of the pillars enabling Grab to out-serve our customers and partners in different businesses and marketplaces across Southeast Asia. We are working on high throughput, real-time distributed systems that use sophisticated machine learning techniques to solve hundreds of millions of requests per day.

Our mission is to offer the best-in-class products and experiences to our driver partners as to increase adoption and engagement of our services. Improve driver partner opportunities and efficiency in order to fulfill customer orders without fail. And to create efficient marketplaces by determining an optimal price that is both sustainable and loved by our partners and customers.

Get to Know the Role

We're looking for a talented and driven Software Engineer, Backend to join our growing engineering team in Jakarta, Indonesia. In this role, you'll design, develop, and maintain robust backend services that power our platform and impact millions of users. You'll work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to build scalable, efficient systems while continuously innovating and improving our technical infrastructure. This is an excellent opportunity to grow your career, mentor teammates, and make a meaningful contribution to our mission.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You will work with the product and design team to understand requirements, provide product feedback, own and implement the product from start to finish.
• You will drive and participate in technical discussions with other engineering teams.
• You will write code that is reusable, scalable and testable. Make sure products are delivered on time and with high quality.
• You will review code from other team members, provide constructive feedback and aim to raise the engineering bar.
• You will improve the codebase. Propose and set better engineering solutions for the team.
• You will be responsible and responsive during on-call duty. Debug and troubleshoot production issues.
• You will provide technical guidance, mentorship and knowledge sharing to peers.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Minimum 2 years of professional experience in backend development with a strong architecture mindset
• Solid understanding of relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, including query optimization and data modeling
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing scalable, distributed systems and microservices architectures
• Strong knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile methodologies
• Proficiency with version control systems, particularly Git
• Familiarity with testing frameworks, quality assurance practices, and debugging techniques
• Excellent problem-solving skills and analytical mindset with attention to detail
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams

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, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.