Growth-Driven Staff Software Engineer, Payments Singapore

Google; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Google’s Singapore office seeks a Staff Software Engineer (Growth) to own and evolve backend systems for Consumer Payments. You’ll shape technical direction, design scalable services, and collaborate with global teams to drive growth initiatives across markets.

You will mentor engineers, contribute high-impact code, and help define architecture across one or more payment domains, including eWallets and rails, with emphasis on low latency and reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience programming in Java, Go, C++, Python, or equivalent codebases.
• 8 years of experience designing, building, and operating scalable backend distributed systems, microservices architectures, or high-throughput APIs.
• 6 years of experience leading the end-to-end strategy, execution, and launch of multi-quarter software engineering projects.
• 6 years of experience with software architecture, driving technical consensus among globally distributed stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical strategy across multiple areas within consumer payments, prioritizing efforts across different market-specific growth initiatives.
• Write scalable, maintainable code and design architecture for critical, high-ambiguity system components.
• Partner with Directors, PMs, UX, and TPMs across Singapore and global engineering centers to drive consensus and align technical strategies across markets.
• Advocate for AI-accelerated development workflows by defining team-wide policies for the verification, security, and maintenance of AI-generated code.
• Provide technical guidance and oversight to multiple concurrent workstreams, mentoring senior engineers and elevating engineering standards.

Skills

Programming languages

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Google’s Singapore office seeks a Staff Software Engineer (Growth) to own and evolve backend systems for Consumer Payments. You’ll shape technical direction, design scalable services, and collaborate with global teams to drive growth initiatives across markets.

You will mentor engineers, contribute high-impact code, and help define architecture across one or more payment domains, including eWallets and rails, with emphasis on low latency and reliability.