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Lead Software Engineer, Backend (Ads)

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This job is for a Lead Software Engineer, focusing on backend systems for advertising. You might like this job because you’ll design smart solutions that help businesses connect with customers across Southeast Asia using cutting-edge tech!

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Singapore, Central

Job Description

Get to Know the Team

The Ads Technology team plays an important role in this mission, offering advanced advertising solutions. We employ a microservice architecture for backend development and leverage different frontend technologies like iOS, Android, Flutter, and Web to serve our diverse user base, including consumers, drivers, merchants, and partners. Operating across seven countries, our goal is to help businesses reach their target audiences and enhance conversion rates through precise advertising delivery and impactful marketing strategies. We transform our microservices into platforms to speed up the market introduction of new products and follow an system principle, allowing systems to improve based on feedback without human intervention.

Get to Know the Role

As part of the Grab Ads team, you will be at the forefront of managing the entire lifecycle of advertisements—from creation to serving and reporting. You will work with a diverse range of tech stacks. Our vision is to increase economic growth by building a platform that helps people discover, engage, and connect with the best businesses in Southeast Asia.

You will report to the Head of Engineering and work onsite at Grab One North Office.

This is an Individual Contributor role.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

  • Design and develop using the latest Go language to enhance the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab's diverse services.
  • Address the challenges of high qps, ensuring high availability and low latency in our services.
  • Participate in code and design reviews to uphold Grab's development standards.
  • Participate in service capacity and demand planning, along with software performance analysis, tuning, and optimization.
  • Collaborate with other engineering teams to explore and create new designs and architectures aimed at scalability and performance.
  • Partner with product and design teams to define and prototype feature specifications.
  • Partner with the infrastructure team to build backend services and conduct root cause analysis investigations.


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Company Benefits

Competitive benefits

We know that a fulfilling job is about more than just a paycheck. Yes, we offer competitive salaries, but also a whole lot more!

Flexibility

Experience true flexibility in your working environment and the way things work around here.

Career advancement

We invest in your career growth - where you'll get to develop tech that impacts everyone in the region.


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Grab

Inspired to make taxi rides safer in Malaysia, our Co-Founders, Anthony Tan and Hooi Ling Tan launched the "MyTeksi" app in 2012. With investment and growth, it became GrabTaxi – expanding to the Philippines and Thailand by 2013 and in 2014, it became the region's biggest e-taxi fleet in Singapore. After 10 years, Grab has expanded to 8 countries with approximately 32 million users each month. We continue to expand...
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