Staff Software Engineer, Consumer Payments (Growth)

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

Job summary

Google Singapore is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Consumer Payments (Growth) to anchor technical strategy and lead architecture decisions across multiple domains. You will mentor engineers across global centers and own end-to-end delivery for high-throughput payment systems.

Applicants should have extensive distributed-systems experience, a strong payments-domain background, and a proven track record of leading multi-quarter software initiatives while driving technical consensus across

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 consumer payments and growth initiatives.
• Write scalable code and design architecture for high-ambiguity components, reducing technical debt.
• Partner with Directors, PMs, UX, and TPMs across Singapore and global centers to align strategies.
• Advocate for AI-accelerated development workflows and verify AI-generated code for security.
• Provide technical guidance to multiple workstreams, mentor engineers, and uphold engineering standards.

Skills

Java/Go/C++/Python

Distributed backend systems

Technical leadership

Software architecture

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Job description

Staff Software Engineer, Consumer Payments (Growth)

Google Singapore

Advanced

Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain.

Google will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require Google's sponsorship of a visa.

Minimum 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.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience acting as a technical leader across multiple concurrent teams/domains, balancing strategic roadmap planning with direct code contributions.
  
• Domain experience in Consumer Payments, eWallets (e.g., PayPay, Alipay), A2A/Instant Payment networks (e.g., PayNow, UPI), or global card networks.
• Proven track record of designing distributed systems handling high transaction throughput with strict low-latency, high-availability, and compliance requirements.
  
• Strong background in product growth engineering, conversion funnel optimization, and user acquisition workflows across different regions.
  
• Demonstrated passion for leveraging AI-assisted development tools to accelerate engineering velocity and establishing team-wide best practices.

About the job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

As a Staff Software Engineer (Technical Lead) for Consumer Payments in Singapore, you will serve as a versatile technical anchor driving the evolution of Google's payment capabilities.

This is a flexible, high-impact leadership role where your influence extends beyond a single team. You will provide technical direction, architect solutions, and make contributions across multiple domains and markets (e.g., eWallets, A2A rails, conversion funnels). You will partner closely with PMs, UX, and cross-functional leadership globally to translate ambitious business goals into resilient, scalable software systems.

You are expected to be a technical leader, remaining deeply involved in the codebase. You will contribute high-impact code and architectural designs for ambiguous and complex technical challenges across markets while raising the technical bar for engineers across the organization.

Whether it is paying online with Autofill, using tap and pay in stores, or using the Google Pay app, the Payments team at Google is focused on making payments simple, seamless, and secure. In addition to consumer payment technologies, the Payments team also powers the money movement between Google and its consumers and businesses.

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. Use data and technical judgment to simplify domain complexity and guide targeted investments that eliminate technical debt.
  
• 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, acting as an "Uber TL" rather than being tied to a single delivery team. Mentor and coach senior engineers across multiple areas, set high-bar engineering standards, and conduct rigorous design/code reviews.
  

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