Company Description

About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Job Description

Get to Know the Team

The Financial Engineering team builds safe, secure and high throughput payments primitives. We oversee a range of platform primitive components such as Wallet, Reconciliation Engine and API Gateway. We take pride in building distributed systems that have a impact on the lives of millions of users in our endeavour to out-serve the underserved population.

Get to Know the Role 

You will have opportunities to design backend services. Not only will you get to collaborate with the product, business, and program management teams to be on top of your deliverables, you will also serve as a mentor to your teammates to help meet the teams' deliverables and goals. This role is based in Vietnam and onsite. You will report directly to the Vietnamese Engineering Manager.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Design and develop robust, scalable, and high-performance software applications using GoLang.
• Identify, prioritize, and execute tasks in the software development life cycle.
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team to define, design, and ship new features and functionalities.
• Lead the architecture and coding standards efforts, ensuring clean & efficient code.
• Implement modern best practices and patterns in software development.
• Mentor junior software engineers, providing guidance and support to foster their growth and development.
• Conduct code reviews, ensuring coding standards, best practices, and security guidelines are adhered to.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing software.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in software development to continuously improve our products and processes.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 4+ years experience in backend development with clear architecture mindset
• Solid understanding of programming principles, financial transaction consistency, and Git version control.
• Experience with software development life cycle and agile methodologies.
• Proven experience in designing scalable and maintainable architectures.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• A passion for mentoring and guiding junior team members.
• A continuous learner, open to embracing new technologies and development practices.
• Aspirations to be/become a Team Lead is a pre.
• Experience with a relational database such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle
• Experience deploying code in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud environments

Additional Information

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• 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

What We Stand For at Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that enables diverse Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.