Distinguished Engineer, Architecture & Engineering Excellence, Singapore

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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 & 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: The Tech Strategy team is instrumental in defining the long‑term Technology goals and growth strategy for the company, working directly with Co‑Founders and Senior Technology Leadership. As a Distinguished Engineer focusing on Architecture & Engineering Excellence, you will be a technical authority and advisor to the CTO and Heads of Engineering. Your primary mission is to ensure that the Engineering and Data Science organizations have the architectural foundation, engineering rigor, and culture necessary to achieve the company's strategic technical vision and deliver systems for massive, global scale, efficiency, and reliability.

Your scope of influence is the Overall Grab Tech Organization.

You are a trusted technical leader, considered an authority on technical issues by both the technical and business community. You will focus on the most advanced, difficult, cross‑cutting, and ambiguous technical challenges across Grab. This role defines deep, hands‑on technical contribution, establishes company‑wide technical direction, and acts as an Exemplary Practitioner to inspire technical excellence across the entire organization.

• Set the Grab‑wide Technical Vision: Lead the definition and evangelization of a shared technical vision across all of Grab, pioneering new technical spaces and shaping the long‑term technical strategy.
• Resolve Systemic Complexity: Solve Grab's most impactful and complex problems, resolving technical trade‑offs that cut across Super‑Tech Families (SuperTFs) and Grab's overall architecture. This includes resolving design challenges that span multiple technical domains (e.g., data engineering, software design, infrastructure).
• Drive Engineering Excellence & Culture: Develop company‑wide coding principles, quality, and standards. Lead the cultural shift towards an \"automation‑first\" mindset across engineering.
• Technical Incubation and Implementation: Serve as a hands‑on leader. Design and implement core components, or take on guide and sponsor roles to ensure the most important, multi‑quarter projects are architecturally sound and successfully landed.
• Mentorship and Advocacy: Develop the next generation of engineers, including formal mentoring for Principal and Senior Principal Engineers. Represent our engineering expertise in industry forums and serve as a technical thought leader.
• Architecture & Design Leadership: Proactively identify issues, promote and deliver changes to Grab's architecture that decrease coupling and improve productivity and stability. Resolve all Grab design challenges that cut across domains like data engineering, software design, and infrastructure.
• Hands‑on Technical Leadership: Key contributor to Grab's most mission‑critical and foundational applications or libraries. Direct, hands‑on contribution to these essential components, establishing highest standards of coding excellence.
• Business‑Tech Mapping: Understand Grab's business by applying appropriate technology to solve business problems, anticipating the evolution of both business and technology. Map architecture to ambiguous business problems.
• Organizational Improvement: Lead and create an overall quality risk analysis and mitigation plan for Grab. Think deeply about organizational issues and partner with Heads of Engineering to resolve cross‑organization issues.
• Crisis & Unblocking: Frequently consulted for making difficult trade‑off decisions. Play tie‑breaker role to accelerate progress by driving crisp decisions. Catcher for projects that are technically off the rails.
• External Advocacy: Represent the company's engineering expertise in industry forums and serve as a thought leader.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Technical Mastery: Has an industry‑recognized level of expertise in a chosen technical specialization, consistently demonstrating proficiency across key technical competencies. This includes:
  • Programming/Coding Principles: Active contributor to an industry‑recognized application, library, or coding standard, or defining coding principles and quality at a Grab level.
  • Technical Design: Ability to deliver solutions for large‑scale, systemic, or technically nuanced problems.
  • Non‑Functional Requirements: Managing the stability, scalability, security or cloud costs roadmap for Grab.
• Strategic Impact: Proven ability to influence outcomes at the highest level of the organization and effect change that has a substantial positive impact on Grab.
• Thought Leadership: Experience in representing the company at the industry level and proactively providing critical insights that influence company‑wide technology decisions and investments.
• Self‑Starter: Comfortable with ambiguity, takes the initiative to challenge the status quo, and can perform under pressure in a dynamic, fast‑paced environment.
• Behavioral Tenets: Must embody a mix of traits essential for senior technical influence:
  • Technically Fearless: Tackles intrinsically hard problems, venturing beyond comfortable approaches when necessary.
  • Illuminate and Clarify: Brings clarity to complexity and demonstrates smart ways to simplify.
  Balancing perspective: Applies judgment to balance trade‑offs and advocates a long‑term view.

Life at Grab: We care about your well‑being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love‑all‑Serve‑all (LASA) volunteering leave.
• Confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
• FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours.

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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