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Backend Engineering - Routing Efficiency

Get to Know the Team:

Grab is committed to building a leading O2O platform in Southeast Asia, where the efficiency of the platform is a crucial factor in measuring business capabilities. This team provides routing/navigation/ETA capabilities for different business verticals (transport, food delivery, express delivery, etc.). The goal is to provide the most effective and reliable routing/navigation to achieve higher platform efficiency.

Get to Know the Role:

Here you will be deeply involved in the development of cutting-edge routings/navigation systems and research in the geography industry, get closer to the core indicators of the business, and use massive amounts of real data to explore their relevance to reality. Most importantly, you will have the opportunity to drive Grab's business growth through bit by bit insight and finally see the improvement of business indicators.

We are looking for a backend engineer to build our navigation product to help our driver partners to finish their jobs in a most effective way. We will need your excellent engineering skills to improve our business experience (guidance, timing control, interaction with realtime singles, instrumentation & analytics etc.). And also we would like you to give full play to your talents, boldly propose creative ideas, and practice them with team members.

The Day-to-Day Activities:

Design and implement highly reliable and scalable distributed microservice systems.

Continuously optimize and iterate experience issues in key business indicators, such as ETA and routing.

Maintain the stability and cost of the most critical online services in the team.

Collaborate with cross-team stakeholders such as product managers, UI designers and data analysts to ship world-class products to customers' hands.

Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards.

**Required Skills and Experience:**

• Strong foundation in Computer Science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, and system design
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in software development with proficiency in one or more major programming languages (Java, Python, Go, C++, or similar)
• Demonstrated experience building web systems using relational databases (DBMS), caching solutions, NoSQL databases, and application servers
• Solid understanding of clean architecture principles and ability to write extensible, maintainable code
• Experience with version control systems (Git) and collaborative development workflows
• Proficiency in designing and developing RESTful APIs and microservices
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to debug complex issues across multiple systems
• Experience with software development methodologies, particularly Agile and Scrum
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to document code and technical decisions clearly
• Commitment to writing clean, efficient code and maintaining high standards of software craftsmanship

**Preferred Qualifications:**

• Experience solving concurrency and consistency problems in large-scale distributed systems
• Familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and modern DevOps practices
• Experience with automated testing frameworks and test-driven development (TDD)
• Knowledge of system design patterns and architectural best practices
• Exposure to performance optimization and scalability challenges
• Experience working in fast-paced, collaborative team environments
• Passion for continuous learning and staying updated with emerging technologies and industry trends