Senior Principal Engineer - Partner Systems & Integrations Lead

Motional; Singapore; On-site; SGD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Motional seeks a Principal Engineer & Team Lead for Partner Systems & Integrations in Singapore. You will lead an elite backend and full-stack team, owning the architectural strategy, B2B integrations, and reliability of the partner-facing ecosystem that connects Motional’s autonomous fleet with global partners.

You will drive API-first design, streamlining interfaces and decoupling internal tools from fleet services, while scaling 100x commercial operations in driverless deployments.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of direct people management.
• Experience building B2B partner integrations or public API platforms with strict SLA requirements.
• Strong backend expertise and cloud architecture.
• Security-conscious design and data handling.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of backend and full-stack engineers across Singapore and global time zones.
• Own architectural strategy, partner integration surfaces, and orchestration APIs.
• Drive API-first, decoupled design between partner integrations and core platform services.
• Scale real-time partner support capabilities and telemetry.
• Ensure high availability, observability, incident management, and data security across external endpoints.
• Collaborate with external partner teams, Product, Autonomy, and internal Developer Platform groups.

Skills

People leadership

Mentoring

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Golang

Python

AWS (EKS/Kubernetes)

API design (gRPC/REST)

Job description

Motional seeks a Principal Engineer & Team Lead for Partner Systems & Integrations in Singapore. You will lead an elite backend and full-stack team, owning the architectural strategy, B2B integrations, and reliability of the partner-facing ecosystem that connects Motional’s autonomous fleet with global partners.

You will drive API-first design, streamlining interfaces and decoupling internal tools from fleet services, while scaling 100x commercial operations in driverless deployments.