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Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Grab
placeMapletree Business Centre, HCMC, Vietnam
Posted on Grab website on 09 Apr 2025 (11 days ago)
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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

Your Team

Come join the team that literally serves Grab - Grab’s Sentry team. The systems we oversee process billions of network messages for Grab's consumers every day, without fail. We work closely with the infrastructure, security, and product teams, and are seeking talented engineers to join our platform team!

Your Role

You specialize in building, operating and maintaining leading edge solutions that Just Work™. Built on world-class technology stacks, the software you develop brings our unique on-demand services experience to South-East Asia every day — be it transport, payments, food, or "the awesome things to come". Millions of people depend on the stability and efficiency your solutions provide, which is demanding in terms of design and quality but also incredibly rewarding.

You will

  • build and own Grab's gateway systems, connecting millions of consumer devices with hundreds of backend services via Grab's service mesh..

  • work at Grab's Viet Nam headquarters in Ho Chi Minh City, closely integrated with software engineering and product teams to help build rock-solid and secure solutions with the right interface, technology and practices.

  • be at home in a HA cloud environment and build scalable, zero-downtime network traffic routing and analytics solutions for Grab's "public edge", serving billions of daily requests from millions of Grab consumers and partners every day

Your Daily Routine

  • Independently drive projects across teams end to end, from inception to rollout

  • Find and troubleshoot issues in Grab's entire infrastructure and code base

  • Develop, maintain, and operate control- and data-plane components, and resolve production incidents

  • Implement quality solutions using Kubernetes, Go and C/C++, and maintain the high bar of standards for code reviews and deployment processes. You mentor peers and promote development and operational excellence best practices while achieving excellent user experience

Qualifications

Your Experience

You are a habitual problem solver, and naturally assume ownership of your team’s systems and software components. You know how to be responsible for mission-critical systems and

  • have a very good understanding of TCP/IP, HTTP and the internet

  • are an expert in at least one of Assembly, C, C#, C++, Go, Java, Pascal

  • know how to build highly-available distributed systems

  • Front-end experience is the plus.

  • are fluent in Bash, Python, and JavaScript, and have an understanding of common patterns and algorithms to confidently navigate 3rd-party code bases for debugging and troubleshooting

Your Advantage

  • HTTP/2. QUIC, and gRPC expertise

  • Dealing with massive concurrency and designing resilient algorithms

  • Experience with building monitoring and alerting systems

  • Hands-on experience with Terraform and large scale Docker / Kubernetes deployments

  • Experience with Consul and/or Envoy (envoyproxy.io), their code base, and their community

  • Experience in a startup

  • Familiarity with fullstack development, including frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, or Vue.js)

Additional Information

Life at Grab

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

  • Attractive Monthly Allowance: Receive a competitive monthly allowance to support your internship journey
  • Work Essentials Provided: A working laptop and necessary software tools will be provided to ensure you have all the resources you need for success.
  • On-the-Job Training: Gain hands-on experience with mentorship and training opportunities from Grab's leaders and senior members
  • Career Opportunities: Explore potential full-time employment opportunities within the company, depending on business needs and intern qualifications

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

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Grab Holdings Inc. is a Singaporean multinational technology company headquartered in One-North, Singapore. It is the developer of a super-app for ride-hailing, food delivery, and digital payment services on mobile devices that operates in Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.
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