# 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. The company aims to drive Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Join the FundsCore Platform team at Grab, a dynamic and fast-paced team building a reliable platform to address challenging problems in the Payments domain. You will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining one of the Payments Core (FundsCore) platforms, which includes complex backend systems and data pipelines to meet both functional and non-functional requirements.

Key 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 teams to define, design, and deliver new features

- Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality

- 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 and availability through strong observability practices and drive continuous improvements in Operational Excellence

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

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

- Stay current with the latest industry trends and technologies; leverage Generative AI tools to enhance productivity and improve system capabilities

Requirements:

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

- Strong Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures

- 5+ years of 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

- Proficient in English (both spoken and written)

- Experience employing AI tools to improve project delivery

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

- 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 with the 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 follow SOLID principles

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

- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Maven, GitLab

Benefits:

- Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance

- GrabFlex benefits package

- Parental and Birthday leave

- Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave

- Confidential Grabber Assistance Programme

- FlexWork arrangements

## Skills

### Required
- algorithms
- data structures
- Golang
- Java
- 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
- AI tools
- Generative AI
- DBMS
- caching solutions
- NoSQL databases
- application servers
- RESTful
- gRPC

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