Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp, providing various services such as food delivery, financial management, and transportation. The Payments FundsCore team is looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join their team in Singapore.

The role involves building scalable distributed systems that form Grab's financial backbone, including the Payment Platform, Driver Payouts, Fee Platform, and Dax ledger. The ideal candidate will have experience in developing backend systems, writing clean and efficient code, and solving complex payment challenges.

Responsibilities:

• Develop scalable backend systems that meet business and non-functional requirements
• Write clean, efficient, testable, and maintainable code to solve complex FinTech and payment-platform challenges
• Build distributed systems that prioritise transaction correctness and consistency
• Collaborate with teams to deliver new capabilities
• Conduct code reviews, maintain technical documentation, and promote knowledge sharing and engineering best practices
• Diagnose complex production issues, create fixes, and implement sustainable solutions
• Contribute to architectural decisions and the technical direction of projects and services
• Strengthen system reliability through observability, automation, and operational improvements
• Participate in on-call rotation and support deployment and operational processes
• Mentor junior engineers and interns, promoting learning and improvement
• Stay current with latest technologies and use Generative AI tools responsibly

Qualifications:

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• At least five years of relevant software development experience
• Proficiency in Go, Java, or another major programming language
• Computer science fundamentals, including algorithms and data structures
• Experience writing efficient, maintainable, and thoroughly tested code
• Understanding of clean architecture, data-intensive application design, and large-scale data processing
• Experience building large-scale distributed systems using relational and NoSQL databases, caching technologies, and RESTful or gRPC services
• Practical experience with microservices, cloud platforms such as AWS, and DevOps practices
• Experience designing systems that meet observability, availability, security, data governance, regulatory, and compliance requirements

Benefits:

• Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance
• GrabFlex benefits package
• Parental and Birthday leave
• Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• Confidential Grabber Assistance Programme
• FlexWork arrangements