About the Role
We are looking for a pragmatic, adaptable, and seasoned Lead / Senior Fullstack Engineer to join our engineering team.
This is a hands-on individual contributor role. You'll design systems, write code, prototype ideas, debug the failures nobody else can reproduce, review the implementations that matter, and work alongside engineers and Tech Leads wherever deeper expertise is needed.
Your influence here won't come from managing people. It comes from the systems you improve, the technical decisions you shape, and the engineers who get better for having worked with you.
⚡Modern AI-Native WorkflowWe're building an AI-first engineering organization, and we want to get further than AI-assisted coding. You'll work with LLMs, AI APIs, agents, RAG, and evaluation, applied to problems in our own engineering and in the products we build for clients.
We're not trying to put AI into everything. We want to find the places where it pays off, build those properly, and write down what we learn so other teams can pick it up.
⚡Technology Ecosystem & PhilosophyOur core platforms and products span a diverse tech ecosystem. We do not expect you to know all of these technologies, but we do expect you to have successfully navigated multiple tech stacks throughout your career and brought strong architectural insights along the way.
Key Responsibilities
- Own architecture and design decisions on the hardest systems in our portfolio
- Write code, prototype, and debug alongside the teams rather than from a distance
- Review the implementations that carry the most risk, and raise the bar through the work itself
- Find where AI pays off, build it properly, and turn what works into something other teams can reuse
- Work with Tech Leads on scalability, performance, reliability, and technical debt
- Evaluate new technology, prototype it, make a call, and write down the reasoning
- Work with clients and non-engineering stakeholders to turn vague problems into technical direction
What We Look For
- 10+ years building and running production software, and still writing code today
- Depth in system design and architecture: scalability, performance, distributed systems, reliability
- A track record of setting technical direction across several teams, or on one large and long-running program
- Quick to find your way around an unfamiliar codebase. Deep in at least one language and comfortable in several
- Hands-on experience with LLM-based systems. Things you have built, not only read about: AI APIs, prompt and context design, and at least one of agents, RAG, or evaluation
- Judgment about when not to build something, when to pay down debt, and when to say no
- The ability to mentor senior engineers and change their minds without formal authority
- Comfort working directly with clients and non-engineering stakeholders
- A habit of following where the field is going
- Production AI systems at scale: evaluation harnesses, guardrails, cost and latency tuning
- Depth in one of our domains: data platforms, cybersecurity, robotics, enterprise systems
- Internal tooling or platform work that made other teams faster
- Open source contributions, conference talks, or technical writing
🏆 Join Vietnam’s Best IT Company - Gradion Vietnam (formerly NFQ Vietnam) was recognized by ITViec for 8 consecutive years, including 2 successive years as the Winner. Work with some of the best minds in the industry and be part of a company that’s redefining how businesses scale through technology.
🌍 Career Growth & Leadership Development - Work closely with our leadership team, gain mentorship from experienced executives, and have direct exposure to high-level strategic decisions. Your growth is limitless, as long as you’re ready to step up, opportunities will always be there for you.
🚀 AI-First Engineering & Strategic Consulting - Our engineering culture integrates AI as a core driver of design, development, and optimization - not an add-on. As a forward-thinking consultancy, we go beyond traditional engineering, combining technical excellence with a strategic mindset to deliver transformative solutions for ambitious businesses.
💰 Competitive Compensation - We believe great talent deserves great rewards. Expect an attractive salary, performance-based bonuses, and a benefits package that reflects your impact. We value talent over salary budgets - exceptional contributions deserve exceptional rewards.
✨ And Many More Benefits to Explore! But most importantly, a healthy work-life balance and an environment where you can thrive professionally and personally. Including:
- Performance bonus of up to 2 months’ salary.
- Performance review twice a year, so your growth is recognized and rewarded.
- Premium healthcare for you, plus an annual health check.
- 15 days of annual leave.
- Full salary during probation.
- Hybrid working for real flexibility.
- Monthly Happy Hour and Community Tech activities.
- Work on global projects as part of an innovation team that shapes ideas for the hi-tech world.
- Diverse training programs to keep you growing.
Skills Required
- Experience building fullstack applications with modern frontend frameworks (React or Vue.js)
- Experience across backend languages (Node.js, PHP, .NET, Java, or Go) and distributed microservice architectures
- Operational experience deploying and debugging services on AWS or GCP (cloud-native, serverless, containerization)
- Practical daily experience using AI coding assistants (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot) and auditing generated code
- Design and implement REST and/or GraphQL APIs, database schema design (relational and NoSQL), and caching strategies
- CI/CD automation, containerization, and production deployment experience
- Strong system design, clean code principles, security best practices, and performance optimization skills
- Proven technical leadership: mentoring, code reviews, establishing engineering standards and architectural governance
- Ability to translate vague product requirements into resilient technical solutions and collaborate cross-functionally
What We Do
At Gradion, we consult businesses with Digital & Deep Tech. With over 23 years of experience and a global team of 300+ experts across 7 countries, our impact spans e-commerce, retail, mobility, travel & logistics, and intralogistics, where we’ve driven bold, measurable transformative technology solutions. Powered by the AI-first foundation, our journey is defined by customer stories of bold transformations in Business, Technology and People. We've partnered with visionary companies to architect the strategies, systems, and technologies that propelled them to extraordinary success. From large-scale platforms to AI, data, cybersecurity & robotic solutions, Gradion delivers tailored, future-ready solutions, empowering the next generation of Billion Dollar Companies.
