Senior Software Engineer, Backend - GrabDefence

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. Guided by The Grab Way and our four core values of Heart, Hunger, Honour, and Humility, we make a lasting difference for Southeast Asia by creating economic empowerment for everyone.

Get to Know the Team

GrabDefence is a new team in the Integrity Group, building Grab's first B2B enterprise technology business. Through GrabDefence, we are opening up our fraud detection and prevention technology to our partners to help them battle fraud and fortify trust in the digital ecosystem. More details can be found in https://defence.grab.com/

GrabDefence is Grab's own Fraud detection and prevention technology platform for companies that want to protect themselves from fraudsters and fraudulent transactions. Drawing from Grab's own experience operating in multiple departments across the region and battling multiple fraud attempts, GrabDefence wants to help companies build Trust in their platforms. GrabDefence is introducing new product lines such as AML, Chargeback protection, and eKYC solutions to its product portfolio, and all of these cutting-edge solutions based on AI will be launched this year, providing the applicant with a tremendous learning and growth opportunity.

This is your opportunity to be part of an exciting new team venturing into a new domain and be involved from strategy to execution. We are looking for driven, like-minded individuals who excel in an environment of rapid experimentation to join us!

 

Get to Know the Role

As part of The GD Engineering team, you'll design scalable systems, collaborate across functions, and drive impactful changes in a environment.

You will be reporting to the Software Engineering Manager based in the United States and work onsite at our office in HCMC

 

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, implement & manage web apps and backend services that impact millions of users.
• Experience a shipping culture that uses the state-of-the-art web technologies.
• Grow in an environment passionate about knowledge-sharing and code review.
• Adopt software engineering best practices to leverage on code integrity tools through code reviews, testing, tracing, logging and many others to ship quality code.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• You need to have solid software engineering and coding skills. Specifically, we're looking for you to have at least 5 years of experience in a backend language Go, Scala, Java or C++.
• You should help build front-end applications. You will need to be comfortable working with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and directly contribute to the enhancement of our user interfaces.
• You understand building microservices architecture and have a good grasp of distributed systems, RESTful APIs, and message queuing systems to develop our back-end services.
• Experience with relational databases, such as MySQL, is important. You'll work with databases so familiarity with how they work and how to work with them is important.
• You have knowledge of software development best practices including version control (specifically Git), unit testing, and continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

Life at Grab

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

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
• 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.