Senior Software Engineer, Mobile (Android)

Company Description

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.

Job Description

Get to know the team

When you’re an engineer at Grab, you are part of the heart and soul of the company. Our passion is anchored in the work that we do, and this is reflected in the impact we make on hundreds of millions of lives on a daily basis. Our team is empowered by creating amazing services and tools that serve hundreds of millions of consumers, driving partners, and fellow grabbers.

When people talk about Grab, they generally refer to the apps that we develop, optimize and maintain. With all eyes on us, you’ll be treated as a hero when you deliver according to our high expectations. Our mobile engineering team is a large international group of highly talented developers who strive for quality and innovation. You’ll be working in an agile and test-driven development environment. Apart from developing new features, platforms and maintaining existing products, you also trial and evaluate new mobile technologies.

We are always seeking to innovate our food delivery and supermarket platforms, which requires the help of first-class Android engineers. Our scale of production is huge, handling tens of millions of bookings every day. When you launch a new code, hundreds of millions of people will see what you are doing in a very short time. Operating at this level is difficult, but very beneficial.

Join our dynamic team where you'll have the opportunity to work on enhancing our consumer and delivery-partner facing features, primarily focusing on Deliveries. This is not just limited to this, as we always welcome fresh ideas and knowledge. You'll be contributing to one of the most extensive codebases in Southeast Asia, impacting an app used by millions daily. It's a chance to leave your mark on a product that touches lives every day.

Get to know the role

As such, we are seeking talented & passionate Engineers to join our team, you will have opportunities to work on multiple app clients with flexible programming languages. It is very important that our team members take initiative to identify problems, and have the right mindset and skillsets to solve them.

The Day-to-Day Activities

• As an Android engineer, you are expected to work on both product development as well as engineering improvements.
• Work closely with the product and design team to understand requirements, provide product feedback, own and implement the product from start to finish.
• Drive and participate in technical discussions with other engineering teams
• Write code that is reusable, scalable, and testable. Make sure products are delivered on time and with high quality.
• Collaborate with QAs to make sure our app releases are always worthy of five-star ratings.
• Review code from other team members, provide constructive feedback, and strive to raise the engineering bar.
• Take the initiative to improve the codebase proactively. Propose and set better engineering solutions for the team.
• Be responsible and responsive during on-call duty. Able to debug and troubleshoot production issues.
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and knowledge sharing to peers.

Qualifications

The Must-Haves

• 3+ years of Adr development experience.
• Experience with Android SDK.
• Understanding of programming paradigms such as OOP, TDD, reactive programming, and dependency injection.
• Working knowledge of several architectural approaches including clean architecture like MVVM or VIPER.
• Experience in writing maintainable and testable code, including API design, unit testing, and UI testing techniques.
• Experience in maintaining applications with a high user base via crash analytics, remote debugging, and continuous integration.
• Highly accountable and takes ownership of one’s own work.
• Eager to learn, to take more responsibility, and create impacts on millions of users.


The Nice-to-Haves

• There are higher requirements for program stability and program performance.
• The ability to independently develop Android App or well-known open source works is preferred;
• Experience in optimizing app performance: network data consumption, battery, storage, app size, app launch time, etc.

Additional Information

Our Commitment

We recognize that with these individual attributes come different workplace challenges, and we will work with Grabbers to address them in our journey towards creating inclusion at Grab for all Grabbers.