- Job Type: Full-Time
- Function: Engineering Software
- Industry: Transportation
- Post Date: 03/06/2026
- Website: grab.com
- Company Address: 3 Media Close, Grab HQ #01-03/06, Singapore, Singapore 138498, SG
About Grab
Grab is Southeast Asia’s leading superapp, offering a suite of services consisting of deliveries, mobility, financial services, enterprise and others. Grabbers come from all over the world, and we are united by a common mission: to drive Southeast Asia forward by creating economic empowerment for everyone.Job Description
Get to know the team
Grab is committed to building a leading O2O platform in Southeast Asia, where the efficiency of the platform is a crucial factor in measuring business capabilities. This team provides Geo capabilities for different business verticals (transport, food delivery, express delivery, etc.). If you are looking for an opportunity to be deeply involved in the development of cutting-edge map service and research in the geography industry, then you should join our team!
Get to know the role
We are looking for an experienced backend engineer to collaborate with team members in different locations and build core map service to help our driver partners to finish their jobs in a most effective way. You will get closer to the core indicators of the business, and use massive amounts of real data to explore their relevance to reality. Most importantly, You'll have the opportunity to drive technology forward with bit-by-point insights, collaboratively drive creative initiatives, and ultimately make an impact on consumer and business.
The Day-to-Day Activities
- Design and enhance cutting edge services in GO language setting a high standard for availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency
- Work with the 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 engineering teams to define and prototype feature specifications
- Build and scale backend services as well as performing root cause analysis investigations
- Design, build, analyze and debug complex, production software that serve millions of users in Southeast Asia
- Write high-quality code as well as unit tests, functional and end-to-end tests
The Must-Haves
- At least 5 years of experience in software engineering in a distributed systems environment.
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures.
- Experience in developing and maintaining large scale micro-services.
- Passionate about building products and features to accelerate business growth.
- • Proficient in LiDAR-based multi-sensor fusion SLAM for high-precision mapping and localization.
- Familiar with multi-sensor fusion frameworks integrating camera, LiDAR, IMU, GPS and other positioning sensors.
- Solid experience in visual reconstruction and in-depth knowledge of Visual-SLAM systems.
- Skilled in point cloud coloring, texture mapping and 3D reconstruction technologies.
- Capable of automatic map element detection and intelligent annotation for digital maps.
- Hands-on experience in LiDAR perception algorithm development, productization and deployment is a strong plus.
The Nice-to-Haves
- Background/experience in GEO, map-making domain.
- Good data analytical skills and big data knowledge.
- Familiarity with database, message queue and elastic search.
- Familiarity with cloud systems, such as AWS or Azure.
- Full stack development experience.
- You can be a good coder in any programming language, but willing to work on Golang. Proficiency in Golang will be a strong advantage.
Life at Grab
At Grab, every Grabber is guided by The Grab Way, which spells out our mission, how we believe we can achieve it, and our operating principles - the 4Hs: Heart, Hunger, Honour and Humility. These principles guide and help us make decisions as we work to create economic empowerment for the people of Southeast Asia.
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 provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.