how to get max(date) from given set of data grouped by some fields using pyspark?

For non-numeric but Orderable types you can use agg with max directly:

from pyspark.sql.functions import col, max as max_

df = sc.parallelize([
    ("2016-04-06 16:36", 1234, 111, 1),
    ("2016-04-06 17:35", 1234, 111, 5),
]).toDF(["datetime", "userId", "memberId", "value"])

(df.withColumn("datetime", col("datetime").cast("timestamp"))
    .groupBy("userId", "memberId")
    .agg(max_("datetime")))

## +------+--------+--------------------+
## |userId|memberId|       max(datetime)|
## +------+--------+--------------------+
## |  1234|     111|2016-04-06 17:35:...|
## +------+--------+--------------------+