GoBear to add software team in VN

January 31, 2018 - 09:00

Asian online insurance and financial products comparison site GoBear will set up a new regional software development team in HCM City next month.

Viet Nam News

HCM CITY — Asian online insurance and financial products comparison site GoBear will set up a new regional software development team in HCM City next month.

The unit will be responsible for building the company’s next generation application code. This includes branching out into newer technologies like microservices, serverless code execution, schemaless databases, AI and in-memory grid computing.

“In line with our strategy to continuously improve our product offering, we are expanding our in-house software development team,” Ivonne Bojoh, CXO & co-founder of GoBear, said.

“The expansion of this team is an integral part of our continuous growth and the need to ensure our platform achieves optimal performance while developing new technologies for our business.

“Việt Nam was chosen for various reasons to set up our primary team. The fact that software development is an encouraged sector in Việt Nam reflects the country’s potential and ambition to further strengthen its tech community.”

True to the start-up culture of GoBear, the unit will be located in a co-working space, The Hive Saigon in District 2. VNS

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