Lead Software Engineer, Backend Payments

Get to Know the Team

At Financial Services the Payment team builds end-to-end payment experiences and platforms that help merchants accept payments and grow across Southeast Asia. We empower frictionless checkouts with configurable developer-friendly capabilitiesso partners can embed payments and iterate quickly. From QR payments to lending repayments and in-person acceptance flows we work across multiple payment journeys to deliver reliable user and merchant outcomes.

Get to Know the Role

We are looking for a experienced and passionate backend engineer to join our Tech Family. You will develop scalable backend systems that power products used by millions of people across Southeast Asia. You will be expected to take ownership of complex technical problems end to end drive high-quality execution and raise the engineering bar through strong technical judgment collaboration and mentorship. Reporting to the Engineering Manager you will be based in our Jakarta Office

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Lead the design and operation of scalable maintainable and reliable backend services and platform components.
• Convert product and requirements into technical solutions while driving design discussions and architectural trade-offs.
• Oversee the delivery of high-quality code by maintaining standards in testing performance observability and rigorous code reviews.
• Partner with product business mobile web data and infrastructure teams to solve end-to-end-user and system challenges.
• Improve service reliability through monitoring proactive system health fixes incident response and root cause analysis.
• Participate in the teams on-call rotation and take active ownership during production incidents.
• Guide engineers through technical coaching design reviews and knowledge sharing.
• Identify and guide ongoing improvements in engineering processes developer productivity and overall system health.

Qualifications :

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of software engineering experience with backend development experience in production environments.
• Proficient in one or more programming languages such as Go and have computer science fundamentals including data structures algorithms concurrency and distributed systems.
• Experience designing building and operating distributed backend systems at scale.
• Solid experience working with SQL/NoSQL databases caching systems such as Redis and asynchronous or event-driven architectures.
• Debugging troubleshooting and performance optimization skills.
• Proficiency in communicating in English
• You work in Agile environments and collaborate well across departments.

Additional Information :

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 lifes challenges.
• Balancing personal commitments and lifes 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 provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality ethnicity race religion age gender family commitments physical and mental impairments or disabilities and other attributes that make them unique.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time