# Senior Engineering Manager - Fraud

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

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## Description

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp, offering various services such as food delivery, financial management, and ride-hailing.

You will lead the backend engineering team responsible for strengthening and scaling Grab's trust and fraud-protection capabilities.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead one or more backend engineering teams responsible for trust, fraud-prevention, and risk-related services.

- Translate business and product priorities into actionable technical roadmaps, delivery plans, and measurable engineering outcomes.

- Lead architecture and system-design reviews, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, resilient, and cost-efficient.

- Remain directly involved in technical execution by reviewing code, contributing targeted implementations or prototypes, and helping resolve complex production and engineering issues.

- Guide the uplift and modernization of existing services, addressing architectural limitations, technical debt, scalability constraints, and operational challenges.

- Improve engineering productivity and software delivery practices through automated testing, CI/CD, and reliable Jenkins build and deployment workflows.

- Own the operational health of business-critical backend services by strengthening observability, capacity planning, incident response, root-cause analysis, and preventative engineering.

- Drive the adoption of AI-assisted software-development practices and identify opportunities to apply AI to engineering workflows, platform capabilities, and fraud-prevention initiatives.

- Evaluate new technologies pragmatically and help teams move successful experiments into secure, maintainable, production-ready solutions.

- Collaborate with Product, Business, Data Science, Operations, Risk, and domain specialists to translate complex fraud-prevention requirements into reliable backend capabilities.

- Partner with Grab's digital banking businesses, internal product teams, regional Trust teams, and external partners to understand their needs and deliver effective technical solutions.

- Foster a culture of ownership, psychological safety, technical rigor, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

**Qualifications**

- Industry Experience: At least 10 years of relevant experience in software engineering and technology, including significant experience in engineering leadership and people management.

- Proven Leadership at Scale: Extensive experience leading multiple backend teams, Engineering Managers, and senior Individual Contributors.

- Backend and Distributed Systems Expertise: Strong technical depth in scalable backend services, distributed systems, microservices, APIs, databases, and event-driven architectures.

- Platform Modernization: Demonstrated experience uplifting legacy or rapidly developed services into secure, maintainable, and scalable platforms.

- Operational Excellence: Deep knowledge of software development lifecycles, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, capacity planning, and site reliability engineering.

- Security and Risk Mindset: Experience building systems that handle sensitive data and business-critical decisions.

- Fraud and Financial Services Domain: Experience in fraud prevention, risk management, payments, banking, AML, identity verification, or other financial technology domains is highly advantageous.

**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
- backend engineering
- distributed systems
- microservices
- APIs
- databases
- event-driven architectures
- software development lifecycles
- CI/CD
- automated testing
- observability
- capacity planning
- site reliability engineering
- security
- risk management
- fraud prevention

### Nice to have
- digital banking
- payments
- AML
- identity verification
- chargeback protection
- financial technology

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