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From the employer's careers site First seen 28 Oct 2026

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Grab HCMC On-site senior full-time

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Description

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp, providing various services such as food delivery, financial management, and transportation.

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer in Vietnam to contribute to our internal tooling products used for our agents to serve Passengers, Drivers, and Merchants.

Critical Tasks

  • Design and write with the cutting-edge Go language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab's range of services
  • Work with the engineering team to explore and create new designs and architectures geared towards scale and performance
  • Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards
  • Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning, and optimization
  • Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications
  • Work closely with the infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services as well as performing root cause analysis investigations
  • Design, build, analyze, and fix large-scale systems
  • Pro-actively debug and solve production incidents during your on-call shift
  • Participate in interview loops to help Grab continue hiring top industry talent
  • Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and knowledge sharing to peers

Qualifications

  • A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related fields
  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering in a distributed systems environment
  • Strong Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures
  • Familiarity with running large-scale web services; understanding of systems internals and networking are a plus
  • Strong understanding of system performance and scaling
  • Proficient in English communication
  • You can be a good coder in any language (C++, C, Java, Scala, Rust, Haskell, OCaml, Erlang, Python, Ruby, PHP, Node.JS, C#, etc.), but willing to work on Golang

Life at Grab

  • 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

Skills

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