Backend Engineer (prefer Golang)

We are looking for Backend Engineers to join our dynamic team.
 

The day-to-day activities

• Design and write cutting-edge backend services to improve availability, scalability, latency and efficiency of Grab's range of products
• Conceive, design, build, analyze and maintain large-scale systems
• Work with your team to explore and create new designs geared towards scale and performance
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards
• Work with product managers, data analysts and UI designers to implement products and test their impact to business metrics
• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization
• Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype features
• Work closely with infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services as well as performing root-cause analysis investigations
• Learn performance tuning and optimization
• Debug and modify complex, production software

The must haves:

• 5+ years backend experience
• Strong computer science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures
• Familiarity with running large scale web services
• Strong understanding of system performance and scaling
• Possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills, able to think critically of the current system in terms of growth and stability
• Experience writing good unit tests
• Conversational English

Nice to have

• Work experience in Golang or Java
• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related fields
• Understanding of distributed systems and network protocols