At Grab, every Grabber is guided by The Grab Way, which spells out our mission, how we believe we can achieve it, and our operating principles - the 4Hs: Heart, Hunger, Honour and Humility. These principles guide and help us make decisions as we work to create economic empowerment for the people of Southeast Asia.

Get to know the Team:

When you're an engineer at Grab Payments, you are part of the heart and soul of the company. Our passion is anchored in the work that we do, and this is reflected in the impact we make on millions of lives on a daily basis. Our team is empowered by creating amazing services and tools that serve millions of consumers, driving partners, merchant partners and fellow Grabbers.

The payments team is responsible for building safe, secure and high throughput payments primitives. We own a range of platform primitive components such as, but not limited to, User Payment Experience, Wallet Homepage, Transaction History, Card issuing, Payment Gamification experience and so on. We take pride in building distributed systems that have a real impact on the lives of millions of users in our endeavour to out-serve the underserved population. Theories like Idempotency, CAP theorem, Distributed Consensus are more than just theoretical terms for us and have real bearings on the systems we build.

Get To Know The Role

We are seeking passionate developers with the required skillsets and then some, to join our team. In this role, you will have opportunities to design, develop, and maintain backend components and services. Not only will you get to collaborate with the product, business, and program management teams to be on top of your deliverables. You will also pick up the software engineering practices for larger teams: code reviews, ample use of static analysis, prolific feature-flagging, semantic versioning of internal APIs, and more. You will also be heavily involved in design and architecting backend systems. If you are willing to go the extra mile to identify and fix our users' pain points, apply with us today.

The Day-to-Day Activities

• You will participate in technical and product review meetings.
• You ensure the timely delivery of high quality, maintainable and operationally excellent code
• You are responsible for delivering high quality, bug-free code
• You are accountable for the timely closure of all the assigned code review and design reviews
• You support the SRE and DevOps team to setup hardware and microservices infrastructure
• You are required to participate in team on-call rotation to help us achieve operational excellence
• You will drive and take more leadership in projects, and help bring in different project stakeholders into the same picture.

• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or comparable experience
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals such as Data Structures, Algorithms, Operating Systems, Networking etc.
• You have at least 8 years of experience - with at least 5+ years of relevant experience in building scalable systems.
• You are proficient in at least one programming language (preferably Java or Golang).
• You have a working knowledge of building back end systems around DBMS, Caches, NoSQL and App servers. Experience in building cloud service would be an advantage.
• You are well-versed in system performance and scaling
• Your prior experience in building OLTP systems will be an advantage
• You prior experience in building consumer facing product will be an advantage
• You showcase proactivity and creativity and understand the right balance between product, engineering, and business needs

Our Commitment

We are committed to building diverse teams and creating an inclusive workplace that enables all Grabbers to perform at their best, regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity or sexual orientation and other attributes that make each Grabber unique.