Job Description
Get to Know the Team
Come join the Communications Engineering team! The Interactive Comms team at Grab is at the forefront of revolutionizing how people connect and communicate on the Grab platform, spanning multiple Apps & Web. We are on an exciting mission to shape the future of communications as our platform evolves, weaving social interactions, groups and more.
Get to Know the Role
You will be responsible for building, growing, and leading a team of engineers focused on delivering high quality deliverables. You will have opportunities to drive development of backend, mobile & web solutions. Not only will you get to collaborate with the engineers, product, business, data scientists and program management teams to be on top of your deliverables, but you will also serve as a mentor to your teammates to help them grow.
You will report to the Senior Software Engineering Manager.
This role will be based in Singapore and onsite at Grab office.
The Critical Tasks You Will Perform
- Lead a team of mobile, backend / full-stack & QA engineers.
- You'll participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards.
- Partner with cross functional leaders across product, design, analytics, data science to build the product roadmap, set customer-focused metrics and experiment designs.
- Lead the quarterly/half-yearly planning and build a smooth execution plan with the team for securing the delivery of product and engineering roadmap.
- Set the engineering strategy and engineering key result targets for the team, consistently improve across testability, availability, security and code quality for your systems and modules.
- Drive engineering improvements to power new product capabilities and platform improvements.
- Attract and retain senior engineering talent, actively mentor and develop engineering talent in the team and across Grab.
- Keep your team staffing aligned with business needs and quickly pivot to changing needs.
Qualifications
What Essential Skills You Will Need
- 8+ years of engineering experience on Mobile / Fullstack / Backend technologies.
- At least 3+ year experience as a successful software engineer manager, with hands-on role in tech solutioning.
- Demonstrated experience attracting and retaining main talent. Experience mentoring engineers is critical for this role.
- Demonstrated experience in leading and mentoring team members to them achieve engineering excellence.
- Proficiency in CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, etc.)
- Experience with database design, MySQL, PosgreSQL
- Experience deploying code in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud environments.
- Experience with GoLang development nice to have.
