Lead Software Engineer, Backend - Consumer Experience

Get to Know the Team

Come join the Consumer Experience (CX) Engineering team - we work on a diverse set of consumer problems spanning across core experiences that power the UX navigation and transaction funnels, search and discovery of content and services, user lifecycle covering user growth, engagement and loyalty and the critical platform mission of mobile application developer experience. We are on an exciting mission to connect consumers to Grab's marketplace by enabling them to seamlessly discover and engage with Grab's services and partners.

Get to Know the Role

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer who can not only write high-quality code daily but also has the determination to lead projects through the full life cycle while dealing with cross-team dependencies & ambiguities. You will be reporting to Engineering Manager II. You are required to help identify problems and adopting the right mindset and skills to solve them.

This role will be based onsite in Jakarta

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You will take ownership of a wide range of engaging problem spaces that encompass the entire product lifecycle management, including front-end development, database design and management, data visualization, building APIs, and CI/CD management, among others.
• You will design and write with the Go language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Demand team's range of services.
• You participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards.
• You will participate in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning, and optimization.
• You collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications.
• You will partner with other engineering teams to explore and create new designs / architectures geared towards scale and performance.
• You will work with the infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services and performing root cause analysis investigations.
• You are responsible for designing, building, analyzing, and fixing large-scale systems.
• You will participate in the team on-call rotation to help us achieve operational excellence.
• You will provide technical guidance, mentorship, and knowledge sharing to peers.