Life at Grab
At Grab, every Grabber is guided by The Grab Way, which spells out our mission, how we believe we can achieve it, and our operating principles - the 4Hs: Heart, Hunger, Honour and Humility. These principles guide and help us make decisions as we work to create economic empowerment for the people of Southeast Asia.
Get to know the team:
Grab is more than just the leading ride-hailing and mobile payments platform in Southeast Asia. We use data and technology to improve everything from transportation to payments and financial services across a region of more than 620 million people.
GrabInsure is part of Grab Financial Group, which includes GrabPay, GrabFinance as well as our up-and-coming Wealth and Digital Banking businesses. GrabInsure’s mission is to design and deliver innovative insurance that enables millions of people in Southeast Asia better protect themselves and their families against life’s uncertainties. We have already launched several “first-of-their-kind” products including micro-health and Usage Based Auto Insurance.
Get to know the Role
We are seeking passionate developers with the required skill sets and then some, to join our team. In this role, you will have opportunities to work on multiple backend service clusters as well as participating in machine learning pipelines. You are required to be proactive in identifying problems and adopting the right mindset and skill sets to solve them.
The day-to-day activities:
- Design and write with the cutting edge GO language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab's range of services
- Work with the engineering team to explore and create new design/architectures geared towards scale and performance
- Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards
- Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning, and optimization
- Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications
- Work closely with infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services as well as performing root cause analysis investigations
- Design, build, analyze and fix large-scale systems
- Debug and modify complex, production software
The Must-Haves
- A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or related fields
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering in a distributed systems environment
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures
- Familiarity with running large scale web services; understanding of systems internals and networking are a plus
- Strong understanding of system performance and scaling
- Possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills, able to think critically of the current system in terms of growth and stability
- You can be a good coder in any language (C++, C, Java, Scala, Rust, Haskell, OCaml, Erlang, Python, Ruby, PHP, Node.JS, C#, etc.), but willing to work on Golang and Scala (Flink)
- Communicates competently in English
- Excellent communication skills, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills, ability to think critically system growth, and stability.
The Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with high-speed distributed computing frameworks like Apache Flink is a plus.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Dockers is a plus.
- Experience in writing real-time input signals for a Machine learning Model is a big plus.
Our Commitment
We are committed to building diverse teams and creating an inclusive workplace that enables all Grabbers to perform at their best, regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity or sexual orientation and other attributes that make each Grabber unique.
About Grab
Grab is the leading superapp platform in Southeast Asia, providing everyday services that matter to consumers. Today, the Grab app has been downloaded onto millions of mobile devices, giving users access to over 9 million drivers, merchants, and agents. Grab offers a wide range of on-demand services in the region, including mobility, food, package and grocery delivery services, mobile payments, and financial services across 428 cities in eight countries.
Join us today to drive Southeast Asia forward, together.