Zalo
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How Zalo hires
Truth index
B 83/100
Median time to fill
78 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
48%
Reposted roles
0%
Zalo scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 29 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 48% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 78 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Zalo is a Vietnamese messaging and internet platform based in Ho Chi Minh City, part of the VNG Corporation group, whose app is used by more than 80 million people in Vietnam for chat, calls, official accounts, payments and mini apps. Launched in 2012 by founder Vuong Quang Khai, the Zalo group also runs the Zing MP3 music service, Zalo Video, the Kiki Auto voice assistant, Zalo AI language models, the Adtima advertising unit and Zalo Business Solutions cloud products. It hires product specialists and owners, data engineers and analysts, AI researchers, system engineers, ads policy and content moderation staff and customer service personnel.
News
Zalo's number of users hits 78.3 million, putting telcos at 'pipeline trap'
Zalo has set a new record with 78.3 million monthly active users and 2 billion messages sent daily.
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Why Zalo founder Vuong Quang Khai accepts criticism to protect core values - VnExpress International
Vuong Quang Khai, Zalo's "most demanding user," has developed its features for 13 years, accepting criticism for the product to uphold the core values. - VnExpress International
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Zalo used by 85% of Vietnamese, surpassing global apps
Zalo used by 85% of Vietnamese, surpassing global apps
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Zalo demands paid messages now for once-free verification - VnExpress International
Vietnamese messaging platform Zalo is now requiring users to send paid text messages to receive verification codes, instead of automatically generating them, citing system congestion. - VnExpress International
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Worth The Buzz: Zalo's Latest Vibrating Nipple Clamp is First of Its Kind
Zalo's latest sex toy is a vibrating nipple clamp that's both aesthetic and inclusive - and packs a punch.
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Zalo's owner commits to apply for social media license
The VNG Joint Stock Company, which owns Zalo, a free Vietnamese mobile phone and messaging app, last Saturday committed to apply for a license after HCM City authorities decided to revoke Zalo's two social-media online domains for operating without a lice
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How Vietnam's answer to WhatsApp, Zalo, began with a hack
Quang Khai developed an app with more than 70 million subscribers and helps lead what may become the first Vietnamese company to go public overseas. He got his first job after hacking into the country's largest IT firm
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Zalo: Vietnam's Flagship Mobile Messaging App Has Arrived
If Vietnam's got a heated battle for messaging app dominance, where is the Vietnamese contender? Well, just a few days ago, Zalo released a big update to its mobile messaging app (on Android, iOS and Symbian) ...
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Zalo over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
189
Postings analysed
76
Stack modernity
83/100AI adopter
Languages
SQL43%
Python32%
Java24%
JavaScript12%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js12%
PyTorch8%
Redux5%
LangChain4%
Databases
Redis11%
MySQL9%
PostgreSQL8%
ClickHouse8%
Cloud & platforms
Linux14%
Spark12%
Figma11%
Kubernetes11%
AI & ML
LLM11%
ChatGPT8%
Claude4%
Gemini3%
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Full Zalo tech stack
189 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Growth
Hiring Momentum
64/100
Growing
Open positions
97
23 opened / 36 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
81 days
faster than 16% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Product
26% ▲
Backend
13%
Sales
13% ▲
Data Science
7% ▼
DevOps
5%
Administrative
5%
Actively hiring for Product (+8 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added DNS to stack
Oct 2026
Added MinIO to stack
Oct 2026
Added Hadoop to stack
Oct 2026
Added TCP/IP to stack
Oct 2026
Added Rust to stack
Oct 2026
Added Jaeger to stack
Oct 2026
Added Error Budget to stack
Oct 2026
Added eBPF to stack
Oct 2026
Added GitLab CI to stack
Oct 2026
Added Platform Engineering to stack
Sep 2026
+5 jobs in a week
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
Ho Chi Minh City
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Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnam
HQ
97 open roles 75 posted in 90 days 31% engineering 1000-5000 est. staff
hires for Product, Sales, Backend
Hanoi
Vietnam
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Management
Jobs
In office • 2+ years exp • Ho Chi Minh City
Python
Java
Scala
Redis
ClickHouse
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Claude Code
OpenAI Codex
DevOps
OpenTelemetry
Prometheus
Grafana
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≈ $18k – $39k per year (Estimated) • In office • 7+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Ho Chi Minh City
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≈ $14k – $40k per year (Estimated) • In office • Ho Chi Minh City
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
SQL
React.js
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≈ $13k – $39k per year (Estimated) • In office • Ho Chi Minh City
SQL
Cassandra
ScyllaDB
Apache Kafka
DevOps
CentOS Stream
Linux
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≈ $14k – $34k per year (Estimated) • In office • 5+ years exp • Ho Chi Minh City
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≈ $18k – $39k per year (Estimated) • In office • 2+ years exp • Ho Chi Minh City
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In office • Bachelor's Degree • Ho Chi Minh City
Python
Rust
C++
Linux
TCP/IP
DNS
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≈ $13k – $36k per year (Estimated) • In office • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Ho Chi Minh City
Python
Bash
MinIO
AI/ML
Hadoop
LLM
RAG
DevOps
Ansible
Podman
CI/CD
Git
Docker
Kubernetes
IAM
Linux
Cybersecurity
LDAP
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≈ $18k – $39k per year (Estimated) • In office • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Ho Chi Minh City
SQL
Figma
Management
Miro
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≈ $15k – $45k per year (Estimated) • In office • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Ho Chi Minh City
Java
SQL
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Redis
RabbitMQ
Memcached
Apache Kafka
DevOps
gRPC
CI/CD
Docker
Kubernetes
Linux
Management
Agile
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≈ $9k – $26k per year (Estimated) • In office • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Ho Chi Minh City
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