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Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Grab HCMC On-site senior full-time

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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

Nice to have

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