Intern, Software Engineer Backend

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 Fulfilment tech family is one of the pillars enabling Grab to out-serve our customers and partners in different businesses and marketplaces across Southeast Asia. We are working on high throughput, real-time distributed systems that use advanced software engineering techniques to solve hundreds of millions of requests per day. We are a distributed team in 4 different locations: Singapore, Beijing, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Our communication is in English, both in spoken and written form.

Our mission is to offer the best-in-class products and experiences to our driver partners as to increase adoption and engagement of our services. Improve driver partner opportunities and efficiency in order to fulfill customer orders without fail, rain or shine. And to create efficient marketplaces by determining an optimal price that is both sustainable and loved by our partners and customers.

Get to Know the Role

Focusing on the DAP platform, the intern is responsible for fine-grained back-end tasks (bug fixes/minor features), and explore technical issues such as concurrency control.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Participate in the team's standard processes: daily standups, requirement clarification/combing, sprint planning and retrospectives, stability meetings, and engineering sharing; prepare materials in advance before sharing and follow up on action items.
• Improve engineering quality and stability: improve service Runbooks/dashboards/UAT, and reduce flaky tests with the test pyramid approach.
• Carry out small-scale stability optimization based on high-frequency on-call pain points (such as DAP state machine deadlock, Jaya deduction reliability, Gamma synchronization), and conduct root cause fixes or develop automation scripts under the guidance of the mentor.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or related fields
• Experience with Golang, including an understanding of its core syntax and semantics, familiarity with its standard library, its concurrency primitives, and experience in developing and optimizing Golang applications.
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures
• 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

The Good-to-Haves

• Expert knowledge in databases, including relational databases such as MySQL and NoSQL databases like AWS DynamoDB, Scylla, and others, accompanied by a distinct understanding of various design decision implications. Capable of architecting highly scalable solutions while keeping cost-effectiveness in mind.
• Experience in developing distributed systems with high throughput and scalability, including a deep understanding of streaming systems and queuing models and their respective integration into these systems.

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the benefits we offer our Interns:

• Attractive Monthly Allowance!
• EPF (Employees Provident Fund) or SOCSO (Social Security Organization) where applicable.

• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

What We Stand For At Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.