Software Engineer, Trust Backend

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

The Trust Engineering team at Grab is dedicated to ensuring the safety, integrity, and reliability of Grab's platform. By leveraging cutting-edge technologies and solutions, the team tackles challenges such as fraud prevention, user insights, and platform enhancement. With a focus on service ownership, incident management, and scalable platform development, Trust Engineering helps deliver secured experiences for millions of users across Grab's ecosystem.

Get to Know the Role

As part of The Trust Engineering team, you'll design scalable systems, collaborate across functions, and drive impactful changes in a dynamic environment.

You will be reporting to the Senior Software Engineering Manager based in Singapore

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Design and develop a robust, efficient, and scalable trust backend platform and tools to handle high traffic loads.
• Collaborate with product teams to understand and brainstorm goals, ensuring the development of user-friendly platforms that meet customer needs.
• Drive project goals, system architecture, and design decisions to ensure the stability, performance, and reliability of backend services.
• Execute a long-term technical roadmap to align with the evolving needs of the platform and business.
• Mentor engineers across several experience levels, promoting a cohesive team culture and technical growth.
• Work with trust and risk specialists, domain experts, and data engineers to integrate solutions into the backend systems.
• Partner with regional Trust teams to implement strategies and tools that safeguard users and enhance platform integrity across entire south east asia.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience driving complex technical projects.
• 3+ years of professional experience in backend software development.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Go, Java, C++.
• Experience with RDBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL), cloud services (AWS, GCP), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation).
• Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and system design principles.
• Experience engaging with AI tools and latest technologies to enhance productivity, improve workflows, and contribute new ideas.

Desirable Experience

• Domain expertise in Trust, with experience building systems for fraud detection, risk assessment.
• Experience in a formal or informal technical leadership
• A demonstrated interest in applying modern AI technologies (such as LLMs, vector databases, or AI agents frameworks) as a tool to solve complex platform challenges.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Maven, GitLab

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.