Lead Software Engineer, Frontend

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:

• Design, develop and maintain web applications

• Coordinate with stakeholders from Product, Design, Finance and other teams to translate business requirements into software designs and implementations

• Discuss and propose solution to improve User Experience

• Estimate and timely deliver software systems

• Develop maintainable and reusable systems

• Adopt and evolve best engineering practices

The day-to-day activities:

• Write high-quality web applications that delight end-users of the product

• Develop dynamic and responsive web interfaces using React framework

• Develop reusable web components

• Write unit, functional and end-to-end tests

• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues

• Convert from design/prototype to responsive interface on the web

• Work with product managers, data analysts and UI designers to implement products and features, and test their impact on business metrics.

• 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

• Design, build, analyze and fix large-scale systems

• Debug and modify complex, production software

The Must Haves:

• At least 8 years of professional experience shipping web applications to production

• A proactive approach in terms of getting things done in a fast-paced environment

• Taking ownership and responsibility of components and modules

• Being a team player and helping the team achieve shared objectives

• Familiarity with the entire web stack (frontend, backend and database), and web performance optimization techniques

• Good understanding of modern web frameworks

• Experience with React framework

• Knowledge of web security and performance

• Knowledge and experience with Software Design patterns

• Knowledge and experience with Application Integration patterns

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with build and deployment concepts

• Familiarity with cloud systems such as Azure or AWS

• Experience with web application security and performance tuning