Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Fulfillment)

Get to Know the Team

As one of the core pillars enabling Grab to out-serve customers and partners across Southeast Asia, the Fulfillment tech family builds high-throughput, real-time distributed systems powered by sophisticated machine learning to process hundreds of millions of requests daily.

Our mission is to deliver best-in-class products and experiences that drive driver-partner adoption and engagement, optimizing their efficiency and earning opportunities so customer orders are fulfilled without fail, rain or shine. By seamlessly balancing these dynamics, we strive to create efficient marketplaces that determine optimal, sustainable pricing loved by both our partners and customers.

Get to Know the Role

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to join our growing engineering team. In this role, you'll design, develop, and maintain robust backend services that power our platform and impact millions of users. You'll work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to build scalable, efficient systems while continuously innovating and improving our technical infrastructure. This is an excellent opportunity to grow your career, mentor teammates, and make a meaningful contribution to our mission.

You will be reporting to the Software Engineering Manager II and be base onsite at our Malaysia office in Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Design and write with the cutting edge GO language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab's range of services.
• You will contribute to service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standard
• You will explore and create new designs/architectures geared towards scale and performance.
• Work with the infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services and performing root cause analysis investigations.