# Senior Software Engineer, Backend

**Company**: Grab
**Location**: Singapore
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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

We are looking for an experienced Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our Payments FundsCore engineering team in Singapore. You will build scalable distributed systems that form Grab's financial backbone, including the Payment Platform, Driver Payouts, Fee Platform, and Dax ledger.

**Responsibilities**

- Develop scalable backend systems that meet business and non-functional requirements, including reliability, security, and performance.

- Write clean, efficient, testable, and maintainable code to solve complex FinTech and payment-platform challenges.

- Build distributed systems that prioritise transaction correctness and consistency, applying patterns such as idempotency, event sourcing, and Saga.

- 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 that prevent recurrence.

- Contribute to architectural decisions and the technical direction of projects and services.

- Strengthen system reliability through observability, automation, and operational improvements.

- Support deployment and operational processes to maintain system health and performance.

- Mentor junior engineers and interns, promoting learning and improvement.

- Stay current with latest technologies and use Generative AI tools responsibly to improve engineering productivity and system capabilities.

**Qualifications**

- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

- At least five years of relevant software development experience.

- Proficiency in Go (preferred), Java, or another major programming language, along with the willingness to participate in professional development activities to stay current on industry knowledge.

- Computer science fundamentals, including algorithms and data structures, and the ability to apply them.

- Experience writing efficient, maintainable, and thoroughly tested code using appropriate abstractions and SOLID principles.

- 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 while maintaining data consistency.

- 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.

- Produce clear technical design documents and maintain operational documentation, including runbooks.

- Experience using Generative AI tools responsibly to improve engineering productivity and project delivery.

- Knowledge of or experience in FinTech and payment systems is preferred.

**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.

## Skills

### Required
- Computer Science fundamentals
- algorithms
- data structures
- Go
- Java
- distributed systems
- microservices
- cloud platforms
- DevOps practices

### Nice to have
- FinTech
- payment systems
- Generative AI tools

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