Software Engineer, Backend

Job Description

Get to Know the Team

The Demand Experiences team's mission is to help consumers enjoy maximum value through engaging and offers, while driving sustainable growth for merchant partners, Grab, and multiple businesses. We engineer platforms used by all business lines in Grab to use our vast reward and promo capabilities. Millions of consumers find our products user-friendly and people at Grab widely use our systems in every transaction they make. Our team members are in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.

Get to Know the Role

We are looking for a Software Engineer who can not only write high-quality code daily but also build AI-powered tools and agents that improve how the team works. You have the determination to work on projects through the full life cycle while dealing with cross-team dependencies. You will be reporting to the Engineering Manager II. You will help to identify any problem arises and apply relevant skills to solve them.

This role is onsite based in our Singapore office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You will develop AI agent systems and LLM-powered tools that automate team workflows and reduce manual toil.
• You will work with the product and design team to understand requirements, own and implement product features from start to finish.
• You will write code that is reusable, scalable, and testable to ensure products are delivered on time and with high quality.
• You will integrate LLM APIs and prompt patterns into existing backend services to solve practical business problems.
• You will collaborate with QAs to make sure all product requirements are met and the deployments are stable.
• You will review code from other team members, provide constructive feedback and aim to raise the engineering bar.
• You will be responsible and responsive during on-call duty. Debug and troubleshoot production issues.
• You will provide technical guidance and knowledge sharing to peers.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• You have a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Proven software engineer with over 2 years of experience designing and scaling distributed systems within high-impact, consumer-facing domains like Ads, Subscriptions, MarTech, and Rewards.
• You have a foundation in Computer Science, including algorithms and data structures.
• You have programming skills in any language but must be willing to work on Golang.
• You have hands-on experience building applications with LLMs, prompt engineering, function calling, or agent frameworks.
• You have experience using AI to improve team productivity and building products to accelerate business growth.