2 months ago
Hanoi, Vietnam +2 moreSenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Own architecture and design decisions for the hardest systems in Gradion’s portfolio.
- Write code, prototype ideas, and debug complex production issues alongside engineering teams.
- Review high-risk implementations and raise engineering standards through hands-on work.
- Identify valuable AI applications, build them properly, and make successful practices reusable across teams.
- Work with Tech Leads on scalability, performance, reliability, and technical debt.
- Evaluate technologies, prototype solutions, make technical recommendations, and document decisions.
- Work with clients and non-engineering stakeholders to translate ambiguous problems into technical direction.
- Mentor senior engineers and influence technical decisions without formal authority.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience building and running production software while remaining hands-on with code.
- Strong system design and architecture experience covering scalability, performance, distributed systems, and reliability.
- Experience setting technical direction across several teams or a large, long-running program.
- Deep expertise in at least one programming language and comfort working across multiple technology stacks.
- Hands-on experience building LLM-based systems using AI APIs and prompt and context design, plus at least one of agents, RAG, or evaluation.
- Sound judgment about technical investment, technical debt, and when not to build.
- Ability to mentor senior engineers and work directly with clients and non-engineering stakeholders.
- Preferred qualifications include production AI systems at scale, evaluation harnesses, guardrails, cost and latency tuning, domain depth in data platforms, cybersecurity, robotics, or enterprise systems, internal tooling or platform work, open-source contributions, conference talks, or technical writing.
Benefits
- Performance bonus of up to 2 months’ salary.
- Performance reviews twice a year.
- Premium healthcare and an annual health check.
- 15 days of annual leave.
- Full salary during probation.
- Hybrid work in Ho Chi Minh City or Da Nang; candidates based in Hanoi or Can Tho may work remotely.
- Monday–Friday working hours from 9 AM to 6 PM.
- Monthly Happy Hour, Community Tech activities, global projects, and diverse training programs.
- Career growth, leadership development, mentorship, and exposure to strategic decisions.
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About GRADION
Gradion is a privately held IT services firm that designs and builds digital platforms and deep-tech solutions—AI, data engineering, cybersecurity, and robotics—for e-commerce, retail, travel/mobility, and logistics. It provides consulting and software engineering through project-based and managed engagements. The company operates globally with teams across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East; its Vietnam unit was formerly NFQ Vietnam.