Senior 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

We are manage the development of the search platform, which supports all keyword search and recommendation scenarios for Grab's food and mart channels. In addition to the backend development of the platform, our team also participates in the design of recall and ranking strategies to improve search performance.

Get to Know the Role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our food search team, reporting to the Software Engineering Manager. You will oversee the maintenance, design, and optimization of our distributed search platform, conduct requirement analysis, and manage product team interactions to support search business applications. You will also track quality, optimizing performance, and developing search and ranking strategies for multiple scenarios, contributing to continuous improvement.

This role is based in Petaling Jaya and hybrid.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You will improve the distributed search platform for Grab's food and mart channels.
• You will work with product teams for requirement analysis and interface design to support search business applications.
• You will participate in code reviews, testing, debugging, performance tuning, and capacity planning.
• You will design search and ranking strategies with data scientists and product managers.
• You will propose and implement new features, algorithms, and architectures for platform enhancement.
• You will investigate and resolve production issues to ensure minimal downtime and user impact.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• We're looking for someone with at least 4 years of work experience in maintaining, designing, and optimizing distributed search or related systems.
• You will understand in developing search/recommendation and ranking strategies for different usage scenarios.
• You are well-versed in programming skills in one or more languages relevant to search platform development (e.g Go). Familiarity with search engine technologies (e.g., Elasticsearch, Solr, Lucene) and their application in a distributed environment.
• You understand building microservices architecture and a good grasp of distributed systems, RESTful APIs, and message queuing systems. Your knowledge in these areas will develop our back-end services.

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.

What we stand for at Grab

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