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 Lending team builds safe, secure and versatile loan products for all user segments. We manage a range of platform primitive components such as Loan Management System, Repayments Engine and Product Flow Orchestator to name a few. We take pride in building distributed systems that have a 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 looking for a passionate Lead Engineer with the required skills and more to join our team. In this role, you will have opportunities to design, develop, and maintain backend components and services. You will collaborate closely with the product, business, and program management teams to ensure timely and high-quality deliverables. You will also adopt and advocate software engineering best practices for larger teams, including code reviews, static analysis, feature-flagging, and semantic versioning of internal APIs. A significant part of your role will involve the design and architecture of backend systems. If you are willing to go the extra mile to identify and resolve user pain points and are ready to take ownership of your systems, apply with us today. You will be based in Jakarta, and work in hybrid arrangement. You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform:

• Technical Improvements: Propose and own technical improvements within the team, driving innovation and enhancing overall system performance and efficiency.
• Participation in Review Meetings: Participate in technical and product review meetings, providing valuable insights and feedback.
• Code Delivery and Accountability: Ensure the timely delivery of high-quality, maintainable, and operationally excellent code, taking full accountability for the end-to-end development process.
• Infrastructure Support: Support SRE and DevOps teams in setting up hardware and microservices infrastructure, taking ownership of the infrastructure's reliability and scalability.
• On-Call Rotation: Participate in team on-call rotation to help achieve and maintain operational excellence, proactively addressing and resolving system issues.
• Project Leadership: Drive and take leadership in projects, ensuring all project stakeholders are aligned and informed, and taking responsibility for the project's success.
• System Ownership: Own the systems you develop, from initial design through deployment and ongoing maintenance, ensuring continuous improvement and reliability.

What Essential Skills You Need:

• Educational Background and CS Fundamentals: A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or comparable experience. Strong fundamentals such as Data Structures, Algorithms, Operating Systems, Networking etc.
• Experience and Proficiency: At least 8 years of experience - with at least 5+ years of relevant experience in building scalable systems. Proficiency in at least one programming language (preferably Java or Golang).
• Backend Systems Knowledge: Working knowledge of building back end systems around DBMS, Caches, NoSQL and App servers. Experience in building cloud service would be an advantage.
• System Performance and Scaling: Well-versed in system performance and scaling.
• Industry Experience: Prior experience in building banking or financial systems and consumer facing product will be advantageous.
• Proactivity and Creativity: Showcase proactivity and creativity and understand the right balance between product, engineering, and business needs.

What we stand for at Grab 

We recognize that with these individual attributes come different workplace challenges, and we will work with Grabbers to address them in our journey towards creating inclusion at Grab for all Grabbers.