Software Engineering Manager II

Location: Jakarta, id

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

GrabKios is the pillar of Grab's digital products business – from airtime top up, data package, bill payment, e-wallet top up, and many more. We support millions of users in multiple countries with their digital product needs. We empower hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs to grow their digital products enterprise. And we also allow external platforms to start selling digital goods as our partners. We're always keen to grow our impact, and we're looking for individuals to join our Engineering team in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Get to Know the Role

As an Engineering Manager at Grab, you will improve strategic product and technology initiatives in financial services. You will execute the technical strategy in partnership with engineering, product, and business teams, and lead your engineering team. This role offers a chance to shape Grab's financial services direction and impact our growth in this space. Reporting to the Senior Engineer Manager, you will be based in our Jakarta Office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Lead a platform-focused team of backend, full-stack, and QA engineers, promoting a culture of continuous improvement.
• Participate in code and technical design reviews to maintain high development standards.
• Champion engineering excellence (e.g., tools, best practices, industry trends) within and beyond your immediate team.
• Build and deliver quarterly/half-yearly team roadmaps, partnering with other functions across product, design, analytics, and business.
• Manage daily project execution, including engineering capacity allocation and task commitments across planning cycles and sprints.
• Define strategy and targets to improve system capabilities and qualities (e.g., reliability, security, and extensibility).
• Work with other engineering and cross-functional leaders to solve complex interdependent projects across Grab.
• Collaborate with the Operations/Support team to ensure smooth system integrations with third-party vendors.
• Analyze data and reports to quantitatively evaluate and enhance platform excellence (e.g., uptime, latency, and correctness).
• Grow engineering talent through mentoring, career planning, and facilitation.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• 5+ years of backend development experience
• 3+ years of engineering management experience, showcasing leadership, mentoring, and hands-on tech solutioning
• Proficiency in backend programming languages such as Go, Python, and Java
• In-depth knowledge of scalable backend architecture, distributed systems, and development best practices
• Experience with database design in relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL
• Experience deploying code in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud environments
• Expertise in version control systems (e.g., Git) and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab, Jenkins)
• Experience with Agile methodologies and leading Agile development teams

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 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.