Senior Software Engineer, iOS

Get to Know the Team

The Partner Apps Platform team enables internal and external teams to create, onboard, operate and scale web apps across Grab. We own the developer tooling, self-service capabilities, developer portal, backend platform and reliability foundations that make PArtner Apps delivery safe, observable and efficient.

Get to Know the Role

As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you will shape and build platform capabilities that simplify how Partner apps are onboarded, configured, reviewed, released and operated. You will work across the developer portal, webview javascript-bridge and backend services, lead technical decisions and help the team turn complex platform workflows into reliable self-service experiences.

You will be reporting to Software Engineering manager II

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Design, build, and maintain iOS SDK capabilities, native entry points, JavaScript bridges, and reusable APIs for Partner Apps.
• Improve SDK reliability, performance, security, observability, and backward compatibility across Grab app releases.
• Drive iOS capability parity by defining clear cross-platform contracts and consistent developer experiences.
• Partner with backend engineers on authentication, API, SDK 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.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• At least 5 years of professional iOS development experience, with proficiency in Swift and the iOS SDK.
• Experience designing or maintaining mobile SDKs, frameworks, libraries, or platform components used by multiple product teams.
• Knowledge of iOS application architecture, lifecycle, concurrency, networking and performance optimisation.
• Experience with WKWebView-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 XCTest, unit and integration testing, and CI/CD for iOS applications, frameworks, or SDKs.
• Diagnose complex production issues using logs, metrics, traces, Instruments, and systematic debugging techniques.
• Collaboration 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 UIKit, SwiftUI, mobile security, observability, developer tooling, or large-scale platform ecosystems is an advantage.

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.