Senior Software Engineer

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

1. Grab's Clickstream Intelligence Platform: Scribe is Grab's in-house app instrumentation and insights platform that captures and analyzes user clickstream activity across all Grab apps. It supports observability, real-time personalization, and business analytics by processing tens of billions of events per hour at petabyte scale. The platform is built on a high-throughput backend leveraging event gateways, Kafka, Flink, and Spark pipelines, along with in-house tooling for schema validation and instrumentation testing to ensure high-quality data at source.

2. Grab's Customer Data Platform:

Customer Data Platform (CDP) enables Grab Teams to onboard and register Grab's customer data and make it available for Online Serving, ML Models, Segmentation, and Real Time targeting to power personalization use cases across the company. Our platform is leveraged across many mission critical Grab services such as app personalization, experimentation, ads serving, marketing, and more.

Get to Know the Role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer for either the Scribe or CDP team that has a strong breadth of a wide range of technical stacks

• Programming Languages: Python, Go, Scala
• Data Streaming & Processing: Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Spark
• Data Infrastructure & Tooling: Event gateways, Schema validation tools, Instrumentation testing frameworks

The role will report to Engineering Manager in Singapore and work onsite at Grab Vietnam office (CMC CREATIVE SPACE, D.7, HCMC).

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Help design and optimize key components of the clickstream data pipeline—from event ingestion to insight delivery—and contribute to services and tools that help teams understand user behavior.
• Work on building platform capabilities for scalable user data onboarding, improving online serving, and building out scalable real-time data pipelines and architecture.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

1. Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related undergraduate degree. Proficient in at least one of the following: Python, Go, or Scala and strong appetite to learn other programming languages.

2. You have 5 or more years of experience in Software Engineering.

3. Experience with data processing technologies such as Apache Flink (for real time processing) and Apache Spark (for batch processing) or at least willingness to learn and pick up new technologies.

4. Experience building out large scale backend or data systems and has good understanding of technical trade offs and evaluations needed to enable high load, low latency systems, while maintaining system reliability and cost efficiency.

5. Strong entrepreneurial and product ownership mindset and able to deliver 0 to 1 products to facilitate rapid experimentation.

Desirable Experience

1. Experience building software leveraging AI / ML to drive business impact or outcomes

2. Good understanding of AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes

3. Experience building customer data platforms, clickstream platforms, or marketing / ads systems

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.