Staff Engineer, Consumer Payments (Growth Tech Lead)

GOOGLE ASIA PACIFIC PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 250,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

GOOGLE ASIA PACIFIC PTE. LTD. in Singapore seeks a Staff Software Engineer (Technical Lead) for Consumer Payments to drive architectural direction across markets, ensuring scalable, secure payment capabilities.

You will mentor engineers, codify high engineering standards, and collaborate with PMs, UX, and TPMs across Singapore and globally to translate ambitious business goals into resilient software systems. The role blends hands-on coding with leadership in a fast-paced environment.

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.

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 and coaching senior engineers and setting high engineering standards.

Skills

Java/Go/C++/Python

Backend distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

GOOGLE ASIA PACIFIC PTE. LTD. in Singapore seeks a Staff Software Engineer (Technical Lead) for Consumer Payments to drive architectural direction across markets, ensuring scalable, secure payment capabilities.

You will mentor engineers, codify high engineering standards, and collaborate with PMs, UX, and TPMs across Singapore and globally to translate ambitious business goals into resilient software systems. The role blends hands-on coding with leadership in a fast-paced environment.