Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Get to Know the Team
The Payments FundsCore team consolidates Grab's diverse payment stacks into a single, cohesive payment platform — the financial backbone that powers transactions across all of Grab's teams and partners. We manage critical platform components, including the Payment Platform, Driver Payouts, and Fee Platform, and the Driver and Delivery Partner ledger that underpins Grab's payment capabilities. We build and operate distributed systems that process millions of transactions daily, where correctness, consistency, and scale are non-negotiable. Concepts like Idempotency, Two-Phase Commit, Event Sourcing, and the Saga pattern are central to the systems we design and evolve.
Get to Know the Role
We're looking for an experienced Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our Payments FundsCore engineering team in Singapore. You'll build scalable distributed systems that form Grab's financial backbone, including the Payment Platform, Driver Payouts, Fee Platform, and Dax ledger.
You'll take ownership of critical backend services that process millions of transactions daily, ensuring correctness, consistency, reliability, and performance. You'll solve complex payment challenges using concepts such as idempotency, two-phase commit, event sourcing, and the Saga pattern. You'll also collaborate with engineers and partners to evolve Grab's unified payment platform.
You will report to the Engineering Manager II and work on-site at Grab's Singapore office.
The Critical Tasks You Will Perform
- Develop scalable backend systems that meet business and non-functional requirements, including reliability, security, and performance.
- Write clean, efficient, testable, and maintainable code to solve complex FinTech and payment-platform challenges.
- Build distributed systems that prioritise transaction correctness and consistency, applying patterns such as idempotency, event sourcing, and Saga.
- Collaborate with teams to deliver new capabilities.
- Conduct code reviews, maintain technical documentation, and promote knowledge sharing and engineering best practices.
- Diagnose complex production issues, create fixes, and implement sustainable solutions that prevent recurrence.
- Contribute to architectural decisions and the technical direction of projects and services.
- Strengthen system reliability through observability, automation, and operational improvements. We require participation in the on-call rotation.
- Support deployment and operational processes to maintain system health and performance.
- Mentor junior engineers and interns, promoting learning and improvement.
- Stay current with latest technologies and use Generative AI tools responsibly to improve engineering productivity and system capabilities.
What Essential Skills You Will Need
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least five years of relevant software development experience.
- Proficiency in Go (preferred), Java, or another major programming language, along with the willingness to participate in professional development activities to stay current on industry knowledge.
- Computer science fundamentals, including algorithms and data structures, and the ability to apply them.
- Solve porblems with careful consideration of edge cases, failure scenarios, and system recovery.
- Experience writing efficient, maintainable, and thoroughly tested code using appropriate abstractions and SOLID principles.
- A understanding of clean architecture, data-intensive application design, and large-scale data processing.
- Experience building large-scale distributed systems using relational and NoSQL databases, caching technologies, and RESTful or gRPC services while maintaining data consistency.
- Practical experience with microservices, cloud platforms such as AWS, and DevOps practices.
- Experience designing systems that meet observability, availability, security, data governance, regulatory, and compliance requirements.
- Produce clear technical design documents and maintain operational documentation, including runbooks.
- Experience using Generative AI tools responsibly to improve engineering productivity and project delivery.
- We prefer knowledge of or experience in FinTech and payment systems.
About Grab and Our Workplace
Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.
Life at Grab
We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:
- We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
- With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
- Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
- We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
- Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours.
What We Stand For at Grab
We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that enables diverse Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.
View our location
Nestled in the vibrant heart of Singapore is Grab's Global HQ! Take a tour of our office here, meet some of our teams and find out what it’s like to work in this vibrant cosmopolitan.
Meet the Engineering team
From software developers to security specialists, our people thrive on experimenting with fresh ideas and implementing them for users. Solve real-world problems, find purpose in your work and work across borders to help drive Southeast Asia forward.
Engineering at Grab is synonymous with holding yourself accountable for impacting the lives of millions of partners, be it drivers, passengers or merchants. Every line of code can have a big positive or negative impact on our consumers, which is why every little change requires thorough thought processes and a deep understanding of systems and scale.
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Learning within the Engineering team never stops, especially with the sponsored learning resources. You need to stay curious and be willing to take ownership to join and succeed in the team.
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Everybody at Grab understands the necessity of balance. We all believe that what we’re doing here is important, we’re genuinely changing people’s lives for the better, but we also understand that this shouldn’t come at the cost of your personal life.
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The Application Process
What can you expect when you apply for a role at Grab? Here’s what our hiring process looks like.
Step 1: Apply.
We have a range of open roles from Marketing to Engineering and everything in between. Find the one that’s best for you and show us why you’re our next teammate.
Step 2: Getting to know you.
Next, you’ll have a video or phone interview with one of our recruiters to chat about you, the role, and your past work experiences.
Step 3: Testing, testing… 123.
Some roles might require assessments and/or a technical competency interview. For other roles, there might be an additional interview – speak with your recruiter for application details.
Step 4: Is it a culture match?
Finally, we’ll find out how we fit together, if your career vision aligns with our mission, how you embody the 4 H's, and your working style and personality.
