Lead Software Engineer, Backend (Payments)

About the role

Grab Financial Group (GrabFin) is building the future of payments in Southeast Asia. As Lead Software Engineer, you will design, implement and operate the core Reconciliation, Clearing and Settlement platforms that underpin GrabFin Payments. The role reports to a Senior Engineering Manager and is based onsite at the Grab Singapore office.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain high-quality, secure and scalable software applications, writing clean, efficient and maintainable code for fintech problems in payments
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design and ship product features that meet industry software standards
• Lead architectural decisions, technical direction, implementation and maintenance of projects
• Give technical guidance, participate in design and code reviews, and apply hands-on coding expertise
• Strive for operational excellence and platform efficiency; on-call rotation is mandatory
• Keep up with industry trends and technologies, take part in talent recruiting and mentor engineers
• Navigate complex problems in an agile environment and translate business models or product specs into technical architectures that support growth, monetization and compliance

Required profile

• Solid foundation in computer science, with expertise in algorithms, data structures and software engineering principles
• At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 3 years as a lead building large-scale systems
• Experience implementing observability, SLAs, security, data governance and regulatory reporting
• Experience working with global teams on cross-regional projects
• Proven experience adopting Agentic Software Engineering

Required skills

• Backend (Golang) or web development
• Microservices, Golang and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS)
• Advanced data technologies with financial-grade correctness
• Modern payments stacks: payment integrations, tokenization, encryption, real-time and offline transaction processing
• Solid domain knowledge of payments: gateway, acquirer, funds flow, reconciliation, clearing and settlement

What we offer

• Term Life Insurance and comprehensive medical insurance
• GrabFlex benefits package
• Parental and birthday leave, plus volunteering leave
• Confidential assistance programme
• FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours