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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.\n Get To Know The Team\nThe Agent Experience PST owns and operates the internal platforms used by Grab's support agents to serve our entire ecosystem- across every vertical and use case. Because agents rely on these tools to resolve critical issues for users and partners, our systems are built for extremely high availability, reliability, and 100% data correctness.\nWhen a user needs help with a transaction, they rely on our platform to ensure the agent has the right tools and data at the right time.\nGet To Know The Role\nWe are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer in Vietnam to contribute to our internal tooling products used for our agents to serve Passengers, Drivers, and Merchants. 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