Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

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.

Get to Know the Team

The Partner Apps Platform team enables internal and external teams to create, onboard, operate and scale web apps across Grab. We own the developer tooling, self-service capabilities, developer portal, backend platform and reliability foundations that make Partner Apps delivery safe, observable and efficient.

Get to Know the Role

As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you will shape and build platform capabilities that simplify how Partner apps are onboarded, configured, reviewed, released and operated. You will work across the developer portal, webview javascript-bridge and backend services, lead technical decisions and help the team turn complex platform workflows into reliable self-service experiences.

You will report to the Software Engineering Manager, and be based onsite at the Grab One North office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Architect and deliver scalable portal experiences, backend services and APIs for the Partner Apps Platform.
• Lead the design of self-service capabilities that reduce manual work and improve the developer experience.
• Drive automation across Partner Apps onboarding, configuration, review and release workflows.
• Strengthen platform reliability and observability through telemetry, dashboards, alerts and operational tooling.
• Testing, security, performance and maintainable system design.
• Lead technical design discussions, code reviews, incident response and platform improvement.
• Mentor engineers and help evolve engineering practices across the team.
• Partner with product, design, mobile, backend and infrastructure teams to align priorities and deliver platform outcomes.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Minimum 4 years of full-stack engineering experience with TypeScript and React, together with proficiency in at least one backend programming language.
• Experience designing, building and operating scalable APIs, distributed services, databases and cloud-based systems.
• Knowledge of observability, production troubleshooting and reliability engineering practices.
• Experience designing secure, well-tested and maintainable systems across the full stack.
• Drive design decisions, review complex changes, and mentor other engineers.
• Experience building developer platforms, internal tools, self-service workflows or onboarding systems is advantageous.

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 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.