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Lead Software Engineer, Backend

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2 days ago
Singapore, SingaporeStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, maintain, re-architect, and operate secure, scalable, and reliable payments software platforms.
  • Lead architectural decisions, technical direction, implementations, and project maintenance for reconciliation, clearing, and settlement systems.
  • Write clean, efficient, testable, and maintainable backend code for challenging fintech and payments problems.
  • Collaborate with product managers, business leads, operations, and global cross-functional teams to define and deliver compliant product features.
  • Provide technical guidance, participate in design and code reviews, and mentor engineers.
  • Drive operational excellence through observability, platform efficiency, security, compliance, data governance, and regulatory reporting.
  • Participate in mandatory on-call rotations for mission-critical platforms operating 24/7.
  • Contribute to talent recruiting and stay current with industry trends and technologies.

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 3 years building large-scale systems in a lead role.
  • Strong computer science foundation in algorithms, data structures, and software engineering principles.
  • Hands-on backend development experience with Golang or web development, plus scalable architectures, microservices, cloud platforms, and engineering best practices.
  • Experience with advanced data technologies and data-intensive problems requiring financial-grade correctness; platform-building experience is advantageous.
  • Ability to translate business models and product specifications into secure, scalable, reliable, compliant technical architectures.
  • Experience implementing observability, service-level agreements, security, data governance, and regulatory reporting practices.
  • Solid payments domain expertise, including gateways, acquirers, funds flow, reconciliation, clearing, and settlement.
  • Hands-on experience with payment integrations, tokenization, encryption, and real-time and offline transaction processing.
  • Experience collaborating with global teams and on cross-regional projects.
  • Proven experience adopting Agentic Software Engineering to achieve enhanced outcomes.

Benefits

  • Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
  • GrabFlex benefits package customization.
  • Parental leave, Birthday leave, and Love-all-Serve-all volunteering leave.
  • Confidential Grabber Assistance Programme.
  • FlexWork arrangements with differentiated hours.
  • Onsite work at the Grab Singapore office.

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About Grab

10,000+ employees

Grab builds a Southeast Asia superapp for mobility, deliveries, and financial services, serving consumers, drivers, merchants, and enterprises. It monetizes via ride and delivery commissions, merchant services (such as ads and subscriptions), and payments and digital banking products. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Singapore, Grab operates across multiple Southeast Asian markets and is publicly listed on NASDAQ.

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