Grab is seeking a Senior Software Engineer Backend to design, build, and maintain reliable, scalable backend services supporting its regional technology platforms. Requirements typically include several years of backend development experience, strong skills in languages such as Java, Go, Kotlin, Python, or similar, and practical knowledge of databases, APIs, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and testing. Experience handling high-traffic systems and working with microservices is valuable. The successful candidate is expected to write clean, maintainable code, contribute to architecture and technical decisions, troubleshoot production issues, improve system performance, and collaborate effectively with product managers, designers, and other engineers. Strong communication, ownership, mentoring ability, and a commitment to quality and user-focused solutions are also expected.
Grab is a leading Southeast Asian technology company operating a superapp across mobility, deliveries, financial services, and digital payments. Founded in Malaysia and headquartered in Singapore, Grab serves millions of consumers and driver, merchant, and business partners across countries including Indonesia. Its platform connects users with transportation, food and parcel delivery, grocery services, insurance, lending, payments, and other everyday services. Indonesia is one of Grab's largest and most strategically important markets, with substantial engineering, operations, commercial, and product activity. The company promotes technology-driven problem solving, customer focus, collaboration, and measurable social and economic impact. Employees commonly work in cross-functional, regional teams and may support products used at significant scale. Benefits, working arrangements, and compensation vary by country, role, level, and employment contract.
Indonesia offers varied career opportunities across Java, Bali, Sumatra, and other islands. Jakarta, on Java, is the main technology, finance, commercial, and corporate hub, while Bandung, Yogyakarta, and Surabaya also have active startup, engineering, education, and operations communities. Bali is popular with international professionals and offers tourism, hospitality, creative, and remote-work opportunities, though living costs can be high in central areas. Indonesian culture values community, respect, hospitality, and adaptability; local language skills are useful outside international workplaces. Lifestyle ranges from dense urban living to beaches, mountains, and quieter island communities. Foreign employees generally need employer sponsorship and an appropriate work and stay permit; working on a tourist visa is not permitted. Before relocating, confirm sponsorship, tax obligations, healthcare, housing, transport, and whether the role is office-based or hybrid.
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