Get to Know the Team
The Merchant App Flutter team builds and maintains the core merchant app for businesses using Grab. Whether you're supporting small local vendors or scaling for international franchises, the team focuses on creating tools to empower merchants. You'll join a close-knit group of passionate engineers committed to elevating the merchant experience and delivering impactful solutions
Get to Know the Role
Reporting to the Software Engineering Manager, you will focus on both feature development and engineering optimization for the Grab merchant app. With this role, you will take direct responsibility for delivering high-quality technical solutions, scaling tools for merchants, and taking ownership of impactful engineering contributions. This role is an onsite role based in Jakarta
The Critical Tasks You Will Perform
- You will develop and enhance app features to improve merchant workflows, ensuring the app is efficient, responsive, and user-friendly.
- You will design clear, scalable programming solutions using best practices such as dependency injection or MVVM.
- You will analyze and optimize app performance to address issues like response time, battery use, and storage impact.
- You will write robust unit tests, integration tests, and collaborate with QA engineers to maintain quality standards during app releases.
- You will maintain current features, resolve bugs, and enhance code functionality while ensuring technical consistency and long-term performance goals.
- You will serve in the on-call rotation for critical mobile issues, balancing rapid fixes with logical troubleshooting.
What Essential Skills You Will Need
- 6+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on Fullstack Development
- Proven track record of building and scaling distributed systems in a high-growth environment.
- Deep expertise in backend languages (preferably Go) and modern frontend frameworks (React) or mobile (Flutter).
- A Product Engineer mindset which makes you care as much about the user's "Latency to Book" as you do about the cleanliness of the code.
- The ability to explain complex technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders clearly and persuasively.
- Solid understanding of database technologies, including MySQL and NoSQL databases like AWS DynamoDB
- You proactively automate CI/CD pipelines and regression testing to ensure that high-quality code reaches production faster and safer.
- A disciplined approach to quality. You are proficient in the Testing Pyramid—from lightning-fast unit tests to comprehensive integration and end-to-end (E2E) suites.
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.