Staff Software Engineer, Consumer Payments (Growth) - Singapore

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

Product area

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.

Job description

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.

Additional job description

As aStaff 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.

Qualifications

Job 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.
  

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.