Grab
superapp
SoftwareEngineer,Backend
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“Software Engineer, Backend at Grab. Skills: Golang, Distributed systems, System design, Cloud engineering. Design and write with Go. Explore and create new design/architectures”
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis investigations; Debug and solve production incidents
On-call shift
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or related fields, 3+ years of experience in software engineering in a distributed systems environment, Experience with Golang, including an understanding of its core syntax and semantics, familiarity with its standard library, its concurrency primitives, and experience developing and optimizing Golang applications., Proficiency in maintaining operational excellence and site reliability, including familiarity with overseeing system performance, ensuring system health, and managing service capacity planning., Good Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures, Familiarity with running large-scale web understanding of systems internals and networking are an advantage, Experience developing distributed systems with high throughput and scalability, including an understanding of streaming systems and queuing models and their respective integration into these systems., You can be a good coder in any language (C++, C, Java, Scala, Rust, Haskell, OCaml, Erlang, Python, Ruby, PHP, Node. JS, C#, etc. ), but willing to work on Golang
Nice to Have
Expert knowledge in databases, including relational databases such as MySQL and NoSQL databases like AWS DynamoDB, Scylla, and others, accompanied by a distinct understanding of multiple design decision possible effects., Experience mentoring junior developers, providing guidance on coding standards, and promoting a collaborative learning environment within the team., Demonstrate a sense of product thinking, being able to align technical strategies with product goals, and understanding how development decisions can directly help end-users.
What You'll Do.
Design and write with Go
Explore and create new design/architectures
Participate in code and design reviews
Participate in service capacity and demand planning
Collaborate with product and experience teams
Work with infrastructure team
Debug and solve production incidents
Participate in interview loops
Provide technical guidance
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work with the engineering team; Collaborate with product and experience teams; Work with the infrastructure team; Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and knowledge sharing to peers.
Full Job Description
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 allowing 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 advanced software engineering techniques to solve hundreds of millions of requests per day. We are a distributed team in 5 different locations: Singapore, Beijing, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Romania. You will be reporting to the Senior Software Engineering Manager, Fulfilment. Our mission is to offer the best products and experiences to our driver partners as to increase adoption and engagement of our services. Improve driver partner opportunities and efficiency to fulfill customer orders without fail, rain or shine. And to create efficient marketplaces by determining an price that is both sustainable and loved by our partners Get to know the role We are looking for a Software Engineer, Backend to join our Fulfilment Platform Engineering Team. We are looking for a candidate with experience in cloud engineering, system design and architecture, and infrastructure automation and integration, always delivers high-quality code, and is willing to guide junior engineers. This role is required because we are revamping our operational fundamentals to improve the automation and efficiency of market operations. In return, you will work with a great team on complex architectures and business. This role is onsite based in our Petaling Jaya, Malaysia office. The C
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