Lead Software Engineer, Backend

Grab; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Term Life Insurance

Medical Insurance

GrabFlex benefits package

Parental and Birthday leave

LASA volunteering leave

Grabber Assistance Programme

FlexWork arrangements

Job summary

Grab is seeking an Lead Software Engineer for GrabFin Payments, reporting to a Senior Engineering Manager and working onsite in Grab Singapore. You will design and re-architect reconciliation, clearing, and settlement platforms, lead architectural decisions, and guide a cross-functional team to deliver mission-critical payments infrastructure 24/7.

You will collaborate with Product Managers, Business, and Operations, contributing to recruiting and mentoring while enforcing security, reliability,

Qualifications

• At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience with hands-on coding and scalable architectures.
• 3+ years in a lead role building large-scale systems.
• Hands-on skills in backend (Golang) or web development.
• Experience with data technologies for data-intensive problems in financial contexts.
• Strong Payments domain knowledge including gateway, funds flow, reconciliation, and settlement.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain secure, scalable software in the Payments domain.
• Lead architectural decisions, technical direction, and implementation.
• Perform design and code reviews; provide hands-on coding as needed.
• Collaborate with Product, Business, and Operations to ship features.
• Drive operational excellence with observability, SLAs, security, and compliance.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to recruiting and team growth.
• Coordinate with global teams across regions on cross-regional projects.

Skills

Golang

Microservices

AWS

Payments domain

Security & Observability

Mentoring engineers

Cross-functional collaboration

Architectural leadership

Job description

About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Get to know our Team

At Grab Financial Group (GrabFin), we're building the future of payments in Southeast Asia. As Lead Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to design, implement and operate Payments core platforms to support both current and future business needs. You're part of an engineering team that works closely with other stakeholders in the organization, e.g., Product Managers, Business Lead, Operations, to solve the challenging problems at Payments funds flow, such as clearing, settlement and reconciliation, by developing future-proof platforms and to provide best-in-class experience to our users. This role requires you to have Payments and Finance domain knowledge, solid technical skills, strategic guidance, technical leadership.

Get to Know the Role

You will assume the role as an engineering lead, responsible for designing and re-architecturing, building, and operating our Reconciliation, Clearing, and Settlement Platforms for GrabFin Payments foundations. Our solutions are mission-critical, operating 24/7 in some of the most dynamic and diverse markets in the world. Security, reliability, compliance, and speed are not optional – they are the baseline.

You will report to a Senior Engineering Manager and work onsite at Grab Singapore office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality, secure and scalable software applications
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code to solve challenging problems in the Fintech domain, especially in Payments
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship product features complying with industrial high software standards
• Lead to the architectural decisions, technical direction, implementations, and maintenance of the projects
• Provide technical guidance, participating in design and code reviews to maintain high quality. Apply hands‑on coding expertise, with a focus on secure, scalable, testable, and maintainable systems.
• Strive for operational excellence and platform efficiency. Participating in On-Call rotations is mandatory
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies
• Participate in talent recruiting and mentor engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement
• Experienced with navigating complex problems in an agile work environment.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Solid foundation in computer science, with expertise in algorithms, data structures, and software engineering principles.
• At least 8 years of professional experience in software engineering, with hands‑on coding skills and solid understanding of scalable architectures and at least 3 years in building large scale systems as a lead role.
• Hands‑on technical skills in backend (Golang), or web development. Familiarity with engineering best practices for system scalability, availability, testability, maintainability, and security, microservices, Golang and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS).
• Hands‑on experience working with advanced data technologies to solve data‑intensive problems with financial grade correctness guaranteed. Experience in building platforms is an advantage.
• Experienced in translating business models or product spec into technical architectures that allow growth, monetization, and compliance without compromising security, scalability or reliability
• Operational and compliance excellence – ability to implement best practices in observability, SLAs, security, data governance, and regulatory reporting.
• Solid domain expertise in Payments - good understanding of gateway, acquirer, funds flow, e.g., reconciliation, clearing, and settlement.
• Hands‑on experience with modern payments technology stacks – including backend architectures, payment integrations, tokenization, encryption, real‑time transaction processing, and offline transaction processing.
• Experienced with working with global teams and collaborating on cross‑regional projects.
• Proven experience in adopting Agentic Software Engineering to achieve enhanced outcomes

Life at Grab

We care about your well‑being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

What We Stand For At Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.