Job Description

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Get to know the Team:

Grab is leading a consortium for Digital Bank license and build a bank with the right foundation - using data, technology and trust to solve problems and serve customers. We have big dreams to unlock and financial inclusion for people in our region is just one. If you have what it takes, help build our new Digibank with us.

Get to know the Role:

We are seeking talented & passionate engineers to join our team, you will have opportunities to work on multiple backend service clusters as well as participating in machine learning pipelines. It is very important that you take the initiative to identify problems, and have the right mindset and skill sets to solve them.

The day-to-day activities:

Design and write with the cutting edge GO language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Digibank\xe2\x80\x99s range of services

Work with engineering team to explore and create new design / architectures geared towards scale and performance

Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards

Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization

Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications

Work closely with infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services as well as performing root cause analysis investigations

Design, build, analyze and fix large-scale systems

Learn full stack performance tuning and optimization

Debug and modify complex, production software

You will develop features as defined in the product or engineering specifications

You will author specifications documents as per functional requirements provided by the product team

You will help to mentor any junior engineers about the best-practices in software development

You will have service ownership of several microservices in the squad

The must haves:

You can be a good coder in any language (C++, C, Java, Scala, Rust, Haskell, OCaml, Erlang, Python, Ruby, PHP, Node.JS, C# etc.), but willing to work on Golang

Has at least 5 years of experience as a backend developer

A good knowledge of programming design patterns (Singleton, Factory, etc)

A solid of the concept of clean code and SOLID principles

A good understanding of the clean architecture principles

Familiarity in developing services that serves HTTP Restful API, consume and publish messages from and to any stream platform like Kafka or Messaging platform like SQS

Familiarity with containerization (Kubernetes and Dockerfile)

Familiarity with any cloud deployment service, e.g AWS

Good understanding of CI/CD concepts

An exposure to Microservice architecture pattern, and have been involved in development of a microservice from design stage to deployment stage

Tech Stack:

Our core services tech stack consists of Golang with Redis, MySQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch data stores as well as HAProxy load balancers. They all run on the AWS cloud infrastructure with auto-scaling abilities.

Our mobile app platform coverage includes native iOS and Android, written in Swift and RxJava.

Our Command Centre front-end is built on Rails, HTML5, CSS and Javascript.

We use GitHub for our code repository and we adhere to the basic Continuous Delivery tenets utilising a host of tools to support our release pipeline and code quality. These include Travis CI, New Relic, PullReview, Code Climate, Papertrail, Gemnasium, JFrog and Jenkins.

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