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.