Lead Software Engineer, Backend

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp, providing various services such as food delivery, financial management, and transportation.

As Lead Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to design, implement and operate Payments core platforms to support both current and future business needs. You're part of an engineering team that works closely with other stakeholders in the organization, e.g., Product Managers, Business Lead, Operations, to solve the challenging problems at Payments funds flow, such as clearing, settlement and reconciliation, by developing future-proof platforms and to provide best-in-class experience to our users.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality, secure and scalable software applications
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code to solve challenging problems in the Fintech domain, especially in Payments
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship product features complying with industrial high software standards
• Lead to the architectural decisions, technical direction, implementations, and maintenance of the projects
• Provide technical guidance, participating in design and code reviews to maintain high quality
• Strive for operational excellence and platform efficiency
• Participate in On-Call rotations is mandatory
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies
• Participate in talent recruiting and mentor engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement

Qualifications

• Solid foundation in computer science, with expertise in algorithms, data structures, and software engineering principles
• At least 8 years of professional experience in software engineering, with hands-on coding skills and solid understanding of scalable architectures and at least 3 years in building large scale systems as a lead role
• Hands-on technical skills in backend (Golang), or web development
• Familiarity with engineering best practices for system scalability, availability, testability, maintainability, and security, microservices, Golang and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS)
• Hands-on experience working with advanced data technologies to solve data-intensive problems with financial grade correctness guaranteed
• Experienced in translating business models or product spec into technical architectures that allow growth, monetization, and compliance without compromising security, scalability or reliability
• Operational and compliance excellence – ability to implement best practices in observability, SLAs, security, data governance, and regulatory reporting
• Solid domain expertise in Payments - good understanding of gateway, acquirer, funds flow, e.g., reconciliation, clearing, and settlement
• Hands-on experience with modern payments technology stacks – including backend architectures, payment integrations, tokenization, encryption, real-time transaction processing, and offline transaction processing
• Experienced with working with global teams and collaborating on cross-regional projects
• Proven experience in adopting Agentic Software Engineering to achieve enhanced outcomes

Benefits

• Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance
• GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• Confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges
• FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours