Lead Software Engineer Backend Payments

Company Description

About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asias leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, weve 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.

Job Description

Get to Know the Team

Join the PayCore Settlement team at Grab - a dynamic and team building a reliable platform to address challenging problems in the Payments domain. We are a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, and product managers who innovate and collaborate to solve one of the most challenging problems - enabling accurate reconciliation with many financial partners.

Be a reliable backbone in Grabs Payments ecosystem to drive economic empowerment across south-east Asia for all our customers and merchant partners. Were not just another ride-hailing or food delivery platform. As part of Grab, the leading super app, were also providing financial enablement to our users.

Get to Know the Role

Your primary responsibilities would be to develop the complex backend systems to power our Settlement services to settle millions of merchants.

You will be reporting to the Engineering Manager II, Backend. This is an onsite role in Bangalore.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality and scalable software applications
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code to solve challenging problems in the FinTech domain, especially in Payments
• Collaborate with teams to define, design, and ship new features complying with high software standards
• Participate in code reviews to improve code quality and share knowledge to upskill other team members
• Troubleshoot and debug complex issues, providing resolutions and ensuring long-term fix
• Lead to the architectural decisions, technical direction, implementations, and maintenance of the projects
• Participate in On-Call rotations to ensure the reliability and availability of our services and achieve operational excellence
• Provide support to the SRE or DevOps team to ensure smooth deployment and operation of our systems
• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies
  
  

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Strong Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures, and capability to recognize when to use them
• 8+ years of relevant experience in software development, with proficiency in one of the major programming languages, e.g., Golang (preferred) and Java
• Experience with building web systems around DBMS, Caches, NoSQL and App servers
• Hands-on experience solving concurrency and consistency problems in large-scale systems
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
• Experience with clean architecture principles
• Capability to write extensible code for complex projects and pick the right abstractions that follow SOLID principles
• Experience with software development methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scrum)
• Commitment to maintaining a set of software engineering skills
• Proficiency in writing clean, efficient, maintainable code and documentations
• Hands-on experience in the Fintech domain, especially Payments
• Hands-on experience processing huge volumes of financial data and ensuring consistency, accuracy and efficiency
  
  

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 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.

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