Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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

Join the Merchant AI Assistant team at Grab, where we're transforming merchant interactions through advanced conversational AI. We focus on integrating artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and merchant insights, enabling business owners to access personalized advice, streamline operations, optimize offerings, and gain valuable business insights via chat interfaces on mexApp. Our work aims to democratize powerful business tools for merchants across Southeast Asia, ensuring they have the support of a knowledgeable business consultant at their fingertips.

Get to Know the Role 

We are seeking skilled Engineers to join our dynamic Merchant AI Assistant team in Singapore. As pivotal contributors, you will design, build, and maintain AI solutions that support merchants throughout the Grab ecosystem. Reporting to the Engineering Manager II, you will play a crucial role in enhancing our AI's effectiveness and efficiency.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

You will:

• Design and implement robust backend systems using Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT and Claude to facilitate merchant interactions.
• Use data analysis to refine and improve AI assistant performance based on conversation patterns, feedback, and metrics.
• Collaborate with engineers to develop scalable architectures, participating in code reviews to ensure quality.
• Advance service capacity planning, software performance analysis, and optimization efforts.
• Integrate AI components into broader system architectures in partnership with data scientists and engineers.
• Debug and resolve production issues during on-call shifts, offering technical guidance and mentoring peers.
• Work with product and design teams to define and prototype features, ensuring site reliability.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

To excel in this role, you should have:

• Proven software engineering and coding expertise, with at least 5 years of experience in backend languages such as Go, Scala, Java, or C++.
• Over two years of experience applying AI to develop technological solutions.
• Experience with cloud services like AWS or Azure, which will be essential for deployment and management.
• A strong grasp of database concepts including modeling and normalization—familiarity with relational databases like MySQL is critical.
• Proficiency with containerization through Docker and Kubernetes, important for deploying scalable applications.
• Skills in building microservices architectures and understanding distributed systems, REST APIs, and message queuing systems to enhance backend services.
• Knowledge of software development best practices: version control (e.g., Git), unit testing, and CI/CD pipelines.

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.
• 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 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.