Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Lending)

Company Description

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.

Job Description

Get to Know the Team

The Lending team builds safe, secure and versatile loan products for all user segments. We own a range of platform primitive components such as Loan Management System, Repayments Engine and Product Flow Orchestator to name a few. We take pride in building distributed systems that have an impact on the lives of millions of users in our endeavour to out-serve the underserved population. Theories like Idempotency, CAP theorem, Distributed Consensus are more than just theoretical terms for us and have real bearings on the systems we build. The role will directly report to Engineering Manager and the role will be onsite.

Get to Know the Role 

We are looking for passionate developers who not only have the necessary skills but also offer more, to become part of our team. You will have the chance to design backend components. You will collaborate with the product, business, and program management teams to ensure delivery of your work. Additionally, you will take on a mentorship role within the team, achieving our collective goals and deliverables.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Develop applications using GoLang, ensuring clean and efficient code.
• Identify main tasks, manage them throughout the software development life cycle, and automate tasks.
• Work with multiple teams to define requirements, design new features, and deliver them.
• Lead coding standards efforts, conduct code reviews, troubleshoot, debug, and update existing software.
• Stay updated with the latest technologies to improve products and processes, and mentor junior engineers to support their growth.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Over 5 years of relevant experience with a proficiency in GoLang for developing and enhancing software applications.
• Experience designing scalable and maintainable software architectures.
• Familiarity with Lending, the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies for task management.
• Experience automating tasks using appropriate tools and scripting, and experienced in conducting code reviews to ensure high coding standards.
• Collaborate with multiple teams, guiding junior engineers, and staying updated with new technologies and security practices.

Additional Information

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 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.