Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Insurance)

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

At GrabFin, we empower the people of Southeast Asia, from consumers and drivers to every-day entrepreneurs, by ensuring financial inclusion for the underserved. The team is building solutions by enabling our partners (i.e. drivers and merchants) to get access to financial services (lending and insurance) products for their everyday needs.

Get to Know the Role

You will report to the Engineering Manager, Insurance, based in Singapore and will develop the complex backend systems powering the many end-to-end user journeys across all Insurance products available in multiple Grab apps. We're looking for candidates that embody ownership, display a hunger for learning and improvement, excel in autonomy, and have the desire to go above and beyond expectations. This role is based in Singapore and hybrid.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You will develop high-quality and scalable backend applications
• You will write clean, efficient, and maintainable code to solve challenging problems in the InsurTech domain
• You will collaborate with diverse teams to design, and ship new features
• You will participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and share knowledge
• Your comprehensive understanding to troubleshoot, debug complex issues, and provide quick resolutions
• You will contribute to the architectural decisions and technical direction of the projects
• You will participate in On-Call rotations to ensure the reliability of services

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• 5+ years of relevant experience in software development, with proficiency in one of the major programming languages, e.g., Golang (preferred) and Java, relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle and code versioning systems like Git
• Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures, and capability to recognise when to use them
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, e.g., AWS
• Experience with the clean architecture principles and ability to write extensible code for complex projects following SOLID principles
• Expertise in writing clean, efficient, maintainable code and documentations

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.

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.