# 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 such as food delivery, financial management, and transportation.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to join our growing engineering team. In this role, you'll design, build, and operate backend services that power critical business applications at scale.

**Responsibilities**

- Design and implement scalable, reliable backend services using modern programming languages and frameworks, with a focus on performance, cost-efficiency, and maintainability

- Own delivery of features and projects, including requirements clarification, technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and post-launch monitoring

- Lead and participate in technical discussions and design reviews, making thoughtful trade-offs between reliability, latency, throughput, and cost

- Instrumenting services with comprehensive metrics, logs, and traces; define SLIs/SLOs; improve alerting strategies; and perform capacity planning and performance optimization

- Collaborate with other teams to design end-to-end workflows that are secure, scalable, and user-centric

- Contribute to engineering excellence by improving CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, documentation standards, and design practices within the team

- Mentor other engineers through constructive code reviews, knowledge sharing, and best practice guidance in design, coding, and operational excellence

- Participate in on-call rotations and handle production incidents

- Support hiring initiatives by conducting technical interviews and helping refine interview processes and guidelines

**Qualifications**

- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or an advanced degree

- 5+ years of professional experience in backend software development

- Proficiency in Golang, with an understanding of its syntax, semantics, standard libraries, concurrency features, and experience optimizing applications

- Experience with RDBMS technologies like MySQL and PostgreSQL, including expertise in database performance, query tuning, and reliability

- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP, with knowledge in designing scalable, internet-scale microservices

- Fluent in English both verbally and written

- Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, along with experience automating infrastructure

- Skills in development practices such as TDD, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery, using tools like GIT, Jenkins, and unit testing frameworks

- Experience applying AI-assisted software development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, or similar tools to improve engineering productivity across coding, debugging, testing, refactoring, and code review

- Experience leveraging AI tools to improve production engineering workflows, including incident investigation, root cause analysis, troubleshooting, and system design

**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
- Golang
- RDBMS
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- AWS
- GCP
- Terraform
- AWS CloudFormation
- GIT
- Jenkins
- TDD
- Continuous Integration
- Continuous Delivery

### Nice to have
- AI-assisted software development tools
- GitHub Copilot
- Claude Code
- Cursor

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