# Senior Software Engineer, Backend

**Company**: Grab
**Location**: HCMC
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp, offering various services including food delivery, financial management, and transportation.

You will join the FundsCore Platform team at Grab, a dynamic team building a reliable platform to address challenging problems in the Payments domain.

**Responsibilities**

- Design, develop, and maintain high-quality, scalable software applications that meet business and non-functional requirements

- Write clean, efficient, testable, and maintainable code to solve challenging problems in the Fintech domain

- Collaborate with other teams to define, design, and deliver new features

- Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality, ensure proper technical documentation, and facilitate knowledge sharing

- Troubleshoot and debug complex issues, providing fixes and implementing long-term sustainable solutions

- Contribute to architectural decisions and the technical direction of projects

- Ensure system reliability through observability practices and drive continuous improvements in Operational Excellence; participate in On-Call rotations is mandatory

- Provide DevOps support to the team to ensure system health and performance

- Mentor junior engineers and interns, encouraging a culture of learning and improvement

- Stay current with latest industry trends and technologies; leverage Generative AI tools to improve productivity and convert to outcomes

**Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

- 5+ years of relevant software development experience with proficiency in one or more major programming languages such as Golang (preferred), Java, or demonstrated ability to quickly acquire necessary skills

- Good Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures, and know when and how to apply them effectively

- Fluent in English (verbal and written)

- The ability to address not only happy path scenarios but also handle edge cases and unhappy paths

- Experience employing AI tools to significantly improve project delivery

- Solid understanding of clean architecture principles, data-driven application design, and large-scale data processing

- Proven experience building large-scale distributed systems utilizing DBMS, caching solutions, NoSQL databases, and application servers (RESTful and gRPC) while ensuring data consistency

- Hands-on experience with microservices architecture, cloud platforms (e.g., AWS), and DevOps practices

- Operational and compliance excellence – proven ability to implement solutions that meet requirements for Observability, SLAs, Security, Data Governance, and Regulatory compliance

- Ability to write efficient, extensible, and thoroughly tested code for complex projects, selecting appropriate abstractions that adhere to SOLID principles

- Ability to write effective design documents and maintain up-to-date documentation (e.g., runbooks)

- Proven experience or solid knowledge about Fintech and Payments is preferred. Working knowledge about Settlement and Reconciliation is a bonus.

**Benefits**

- Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance

- GrabFlex to create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations

- Parental and Birthday leave, and Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave

- Confidential Grabber Assistance Programme

- FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

## Skills

### Required
- Golang
- Java
- algorithms
- data structures
- English
- clean architecture
- data-driven application design
- large-scale data processing
- microservices architecture
- cloud platforms
- DevOps practices
- Observability
- SLAs
- Security
- Data Governance
- Regulatory compliance

### Nice to have
- Fintech
- Payments
- Settlement
- Reconciliation
- Generative AI tools

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