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 authentication mechanisms that provide proof of user identity while minimizing user friction.These mechanisms are optimized for mobile, web, and voice environments.

Get to know the Role

We are looking for experienced developers to join our team, reporting to the Software Engineering Manager. You'll collaborate with Engineers, UI Designers, and Data teams, while following best practices like code reviews, static analysis, feature-flagging, and semantic versioning of internal APIs.

This role is based in Petaling Jaya and hybrid

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You will develop with GO to enhance service availability, scalability, and efficiency.
• You will collaborate on designing scalable, architectures.
• You will debug and modify complex production software.
• You will participate in code reviews and contribute to the improvement of the codebase
• You will participate in capacity planning, performance tuning, and optimization.
• You will work with the infrastructure team to grow backend services and investigate causes.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• You have at least 1 year of software engineering experience, with coding skills in any backend language and willing to work with Golang. Proficiency with relational (MySQL) and NoSQL (Redis, DDB) databases.
• You have experience developing large-scale, available services.
• You have experience with database concepts and data modeling
• You have experience with algorithms, data structures, microservices architecture, distributed systems, RESTful APIs, and message queuing systems.
• You have knowledge of software development best practices. This includes version control (specifically Git), unit testing, and continuous integration/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.