Senior Software Engineer, Mobile (Android)

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.

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

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

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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