
Senior Software Engineer, Backend
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Job Description Get to Know the Team Grab is Southeast Asia's leading super-app. We provide everyday services such as deliveries, mobility, financial services, enterprise services and others to millions of users across the region. You will be reporting to Software Engineering Manager II. At the Experimentation Platform Team, we enable Grab's internal services to manage their product configurations and experiment with those configurations to optimise. The problem space we are working on consists of making product configuration management and experimentation easy and efficient for Grab's internal services. We are looking for software engineers to join the team to help us make that vision a reality by developing and innovating the experiment platform. Get to Know the Role This is a hands-on role involving building a scalable and resource efficient cutting edge software platform. You will build a available, scalable and resource efficient experimentation platform to drive real-world impact in Grab's services that consists of tens of thousands of consumers, drivers and merchants. You have a background in software engineering with proficiency in GoLang, MySQL database, REST APIs. Experience developing memory and CPU efficient software solutions is a bonus. You are expected to have understanding of software development life-cycle and engineering practices. This role is onsite based in our Petaling Jaya, Malaysia office. The Critical Tasks You Will Perform - You will be part of design, development and launch of new features of the experimentation platform using GoLang, MySQL DB, S3 and REST APIs. - You will be part of end-to-end software development lifecycle of software application including coding, testing, reviewing & deployment. - You will participate in on-call rotations with the team to support platform users. - You will identify ways to enhance the platform's performance, capabilities, and user experience. - You will write technical documents such as RFCs, RCAs etc. - You will work with cross-functional teams to understand their needs and optimize solutions. Qualifications What Essential Skills You Will Need - You have a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology or related fields with 4+ years of experience writing efficient, readable, maintainable and testable code in programming language in GoLang. - You have experience with engineering practices and design patterns. - Proficiency in Golang with understanding of goroutines and go libraries. - You have experience with MySQL database and writing complex & efficient queries. - Proficiency of working with VCS such as git, git flows, deployment strategies - You have familiarity with observability tools and logging systems