Senior Software Engineer, Android

Get to Know the Team

The MiniApp Platform team builds the technology that enables internal teams and external partners to create and operate MiniApps within the Grab ecosystem. We own the mobile SDKs native entry points backend integrations developer tooling reliability foundations and self-service capabilities that help partners move from integration to production safely and quickly.

Get to Know the Role

As a Senior Android Engineer you will own and evolve the Android side of the MiniApp platform. You will build reusable SDK and native capabilities improve parity across Android and iOS and help the platform scale from managed partner integrations toward a governed developer ecosystem. You will work with iOS backend full-stack QA product and partner-facing teams to deliver reliable experiences used across Southeast Asia.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Design build and maintain Android SDK capabilities native entry points JavaScript bridges and reusable APIs for MiniApps.
• Improve SDK reliability performance security observability and backward compatibility across Grab app releases.
• Drive Android and iOS capability parity by defining clear cross-platform contracts and developer experiences.
• Partner with backend engineers on Horus services authentication scopes transaction capabilities telemetry and other platform integrations.
• Build automated tests release tooling sample applications and technical documentation that make partner integrations faster and safer.
• Investigate production issues strengthen monitoring and failure handling and contribute to incident response and post-incident improvements.
• Collaborate with product design QA and partner teams to translate requirements into scalable mobile platform solutions.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews code reviews mentoring and continuous improvement of engineering standards.

Qualifications :

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• At least 5 years of professional Android development experience with proficiency in Kotlin and the Android SDK.
• Experience designing or maintaining mobile SDKs libraries or platform components used by multiple product teams.
• Knowledge of Android application architecture lifecycle concurrency networking storage and performance optimisation.
• Experience with WebView-based integrations JavaScript bridges RESTful APIs and secure client-server communication.
• Understanding of API design versioning backward compatibility testing strategy and release management.
• Hands-on experience with unit integration and instrumentation testing and CI/CD for Android applications or SDKs.
• Diagnose complex production issues using logs metrics traces and systematic debugging techniques.
• Collaboration and communication skills with experience working across mobile backend QA product and external partner teams.
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction through architecture and high-quality code.
• Experience with mobile security observability developer tooling or large-scale platform ecosystems is an advantage.

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 lifes challenges.
• Balancing personal commitments and lifes 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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time