Lead Payments Platform Engineer — Regional (Onsite + FlexWork)

Grab; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Term Life Insurance

Medical Insurance

GrabFlex benefits

LASA volunteering leave

FlexWork arrangements

Job summary

Grab is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for FundsCore to architect and deliver regional-scale payments platforms powering its ecosystem across Southeast Asia. You will drive fault-tolerant, compliant services handling high transaction volumes, across currencies, payment methods, and regulatory regimes.

You will partner with Product, Risk, Compliance, Finance, and country teams to enable authorization, capture, settlement, reconciliation, disbursements/payouts, refunds/disputes, wallets and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in CS or related; Master's preferred.
• 8+ years in software; 3+ years in senior/lead roles delivering complex systems.
• Strong in Java, Go, or Python with distributed systems and microservices experience.

Responsibilities

• Own design and delivery of mission-critical payments systems with high availability, low latency, and strict correctness.
• Define core payments architecture and drive platformization with clear domains, stable APIs, event contracts, data models, and versioning.
• Build resilient integrations to card networks, banks, APMs, and real-time rails that tolerate changes and outages.
• Champion reliability, observability, security, compliance, scalability, operability, and cost with SRE and Security, and lead chaos tests, DR, and incidents.
• Lead regionalization across currency, localization, regulation, and scheme needs with safe rollouts and migrations.
• Make pragmatic, data-driven decisions that balance impact, speed, and maintainability, and align stakeholders on trade-offs.
• Author and review design docs/RFCs, lead architecture reviews, set coding/testing standards, and elevate service.
• Lead by example with prototypes and critical-path builds, mentor senior and staff engineers, and scale best practices and culture.

Skills

Software engineering

Senior/lead experience

Distributed systems

Payments domain

Architectural design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Java

Go

Python

AWS

Azure/GCP

CI/CD

IaC

Job description

Grab is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for FundsCore to architect and deliver regional-scale payments platforms powering its ecosystem across Southeast Asia. You will drive fault-tolerant, compliant services handling high transaction volumes, across currencies, payment methods, and regulatory regimes.

You will partner with Product, Risk, Compliance, Finance, and country teams to enable authorization, capture, settlement, reconciliation, disbursements/payouts, refunds/disputes, wallets and