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Life at Grab

At Grab, every Grabber is guided by The Grab Way, which spells out our mission, how we believe we can achieve it, and our operating principles - the 4Hs: Heart, Hunger, Honour and Humility. These principles guide and help us make decisions as we work to create economic empowerment for the people of Southeast Asia.

Get to know our Team

On Grab’s Identity (IAM) team you will be building the best breed registration, authentication and authorization system for all user participants in the Grab ecosystem tailored for SEA markets. This includes Grab services as well as external partner scenarios. Your mission will be to deliver authentication mechanisms that provide strong proof of user identity while minimizing user friction, accommodating mobile, web and voice environments.

We take pride in building distributed systems that have a real impact on the lives of millions of users in our endeavor to out-serve the underserved population. Terms such as Idempotency, CAP theorem, Distributed Consensus are not just theoretical terms for us but have a real bearing on the systems we build.

Get to know the Role

As a leader in an exciting and dynamic industry that is evolving daily, we are seeking talented Lead Android Engineers to join our team! As part of this role, you will be responsible for designing and building app authentication experiences that are secure and as frictionless as possible for our users. You will be working on world class authentication and authorization systems that are regionally compliant, and adhere to stringent security, fintech and other regulatory standards.

As a lead mobile engineer you will play a significant role in deciding the components of the SDK to be built for a specific problem space and how these components will interact with the underlying platforms. You will be driving the SDK design for the problem space, as well as guiding other engineers on best practices for mobile engineering.

The Day-to-Day Activities

• Translate high-level business requirements into detailed technical specifications and implementation plans.

• Collaborate with the product, business, and program management team to be on top of your deliverable.

• Participate in technical and product review meetings.

• Create well defined and clear technical specifications and RFCs.

• Focus on timely delivery of high-quality, maintainable, and operationally excellent code and test code using Java/Kotlin for Android.

• Participate in code review and design reviews, be the subject matter expert and bar raiser in the discussions.

• Be part of on-call rotation and support the application in production, lead by hands on contribution and advising other engineers if an outage or app crash occurs.

• You make an impact by delivering a fault free and secure experience to millions of daily users of the platform, also enabling our partners to earn their business income through the app.

The Must-Haves

• 6+ years of experience in building large-scale, highly available mobile applications

• Strong Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms, data structures and generic programming/system design.

• Familiarity with architecting significant parts of a large scale Android mobile app with API based backends. (Millions of daily active users)

• Expert level understanding of the Android OS fundamentals and the security architecture of the OS.

• Excellent knowledge of performance tuning of apps.

• Experience with one of the following design patterns: MVVM, MVC, RxJava, Retrofit, OkHttp, Gson, etc

• Experience in working with Mobile SDK development and NDKs

• Possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills, able to think critically of the current system in terms of growth and stability

• History of effectively working with and growing geo-distributed partner teams.

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject

The Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with TEE, TPM would be a plus.

• Prior knowledge and exposure to application security, encryption algorithms, hashing schemes, experience building security products would be a plus

• Knowledge of authentication and authorisation standards and protocols like SAML, OAuth2, OIDC, FIDO etc would be a plus.

Our Commitment

We are committed to building diverse teams and creating an inclusive workplace that enables all Grabbers to perform at their best, regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity or sexual orientation and other attributes that make each Grabber unique.