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 Foundations Polaris team is dedicated to building a top-tier registration, authentication, and authorization system for all users in the Grab ecosystem, specifically tailored for SEA markets. Our daily mission is to ensure robust authentication mechanisms that provide strong proof of user identity while minimizing user friction.These mechanisms are optimized for mobile, web, and voice environments.

Get to know the Role

As a market leader in a constantly evolving climate, we are seeking talented developers to join our team.

• You will solve interesting problems by collaborating with other Engineers, UI Designers, and Data teams.
• You will adopt software engineering best practices for larger teams, including code reviews, ample use of static analysis, prolific feature-flagging, and semantic versioning of internal APIs.

The Critical Tasks You will Perform

• You will be responsible for designing and writing with the cutting-edge GO language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab's services.
• You will collaborate with the engineering team to explore and create new designs/architectures geared towards scale and performance.
• You will support the debugging and modification of complex, production software.
• You will be involved in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards.
• You will engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning, and optimization.
• You will collaborate closely with the infrastructure team in building and scaling backend services and performing root cause analysis investigations.​​​​​

What Essential Skills You will Need

• We're seeking an individual with a minimum of 1+ years of experience as a software engineer, with a focus on writing production code. You should have solid software engineering and coding skills, with experience in at least one backend language like Go, Scala, Java, C++, or others.
• You should have a proven history of designing, developing, and implementing large-scale, highly available online services. You can be a proficient coder in any language but must be willing to work on Golang.
• Solid Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures are essential. You should have proficiency in building microservices architecture and a solid understanding of distributed systems, RESTful APIs, and message queuing systems.
• Experience with relational databases (e.g., MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., Redis, DDB) is necessary.
• You should possess strong knowledge of software development best practices, including version control (Git), unit testing, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (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 enables diverse Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.