Software Engineer, Backend

Get to know our Vietnam R&D Lab

When you're an engineer at Grab, you are part of the heart and soul of the company. Our passion is anchored in the work that we do, and this is reflected in the impact we make on millions of lives on a daily basis. Our team is empowered by creating amazing services and tools that serve millions of passengers, driving partners, and internal users.

The Grab Vietnam R&D lab focuses on building and nurturing the best engineering talents from diverse academic backgrounds and industry experience to deliver high profile projects using data-driven methodologies.

Join us if you want to grow and mentor others in a tight-knit lab out of Ho Chi Minh City.

Get to know the role

• Learn and influence the fundamentals of engineering at Grab
• Relentless focus on delivering high-quality, maintainable and bug-free code at scale
• Discuss and debate with other team members to find optimal solutions
• Monitor systems to make sure there is no disruption in our services

The day-to-day activities

• Design and write cutting-edge backend services for Grab's range of products that serve millions of users
• Conceive, analyze, design, build and maintain large-scale systems, ensuring system is robust, highly optimized for performance, highly scalable, highly available.
• Work with your team to explore and create new designs geared towards scale and performance
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards
• Work with product managers, data analysts and UI designers to implement products and test their impact to business metrics
• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization
• Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype features
• Work closely with infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services as well as performing root-cause analysis investigations
• Conduct performance tuning and optimization
• Debug and modify complex, production software

The must haves

• 5+ years backend experience
• Strong computer science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures
• Familiarity with running large scale microservices services
• Strong understanding of system performance and scaling
• Excellent communication skills, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills, ability to think critically system growth and stability
• Familiarity with AWS
• Experience in writing good unit tests
• Conversational English

Nice to have

• Work experience in Java or Go (strongly preferred)
• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related fields
• Understanding of distributed systems and network protocols
• Familiar with Cloud service providers: AWS, Azure.
• Elastic Search, MySQL, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Kafka, Redis, Terraform, Docker, Gitlab, Jenkins, LUA