Senior Software Engineer, Mobile (Android)

Company Description

About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Job Description

Get to Know the Team

Join the Consumer Experience Pax App Core team, dedicated to enhancing the mobile developer experience for engineers contributing to the Grab Super App. You will be a platform engineer focused on building next-generation mobile application frameworks and components that simplify the creation of top-tier mobile software. Our team of mobile engineers works collaboratively across Grab to maintain our design system and internal productivity tools, ensuring a seamless experience for developers.

Get to Know the Role

You'll report directly to the Engineering Manager and take charge of managing software systems for your team, focusing on building the platform/systems for product engineers.. Your role will ensure these systems are secure, reliable, maintainable, and thoroughly tested. You'll assess architectural patterns, infrastructure options, and handle post-deployment monitoring.

You will work onsite at the Grab Bengaluru office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You will design and implement core Android infrastructure components and frameworks that underpin Grab's Super App architecture
• You will guide technical discussions and make architecture decisions to improve platforms across teams
• You will collaborate with design and product teams to maintain our design system and create SDK interfaces that address common challenges
• You will develop generative AI applications and maintain build systems and CI/CD pipelines that enhance developer efficiency
• You will create reusable Android components, focusing on scalability, performance, and developer experience
• You will lead code reviews and technical discussions, ensuring standardisation across mobile codebases
• You will develop comprehensive technical documentation, best practices, and guides for new platform features

Qualifications

Essential Skills You Will Need

• At least 5 years of professional experience in Android development
• Experience delivering end-to-end features in large-scale Android applications
• Experience in modular architecture and managing multi-module Android projects
• Expertise in Android architecture patterns like MVVM/MVI and SOLID principles, ensuring scalable and maintainable system designs
• An understanding of Android build systems (Gradle/Bazel) and CI/CD pipelines, essential for optimizing development workflows
• Proficiency in Kotlin, Compose and modern Android development practices - ensuring robust and efficient system creation
• Familiarity with system design - creating code that is scalable, maintainable, and testable, thereby ensuring reliability and extensibility of features
• Experience with dependency injection frameworks like Dagger, Hilt or Anvil to help create modular and flexible code structures

Good to Have

• A background in managing UI component libraries that ensure user interface consistency
• Familiarity with building generative AI applications
• Prior experience maintaining developer productivity tools

Additional Information

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

What We Stand For at Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that enables diverse Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique

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