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.

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, CMC Creative Space office and onsite. You will report directly to the Vietnamese Engineering Manager.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Design and write with the cutting edge GO language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab's range of services.
• You will contribute to service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standard
• You will partner with other engineering teams to explore and create new designs/architectures geared towards scale and performance.
• Work with the infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services and performing root cause analysis investigations.
• You are responsible for designing, building, analyzing and fixing large-scale systems.
• Debug and modify complex production software

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Background in backend development with clear architecture mindset.
• Have at least 2 years of experience in backend development with programming skills in Java or Golang
• Experience with programming principles, financial transaction consistency, and Git version control.
• Experience with software development life cycle and agile methodologies.
• Experience designing scalable and maintainable architectures.
• Experience with a relational database such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle
• Experience deploying code in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud environments

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.