Lead Software Engineer, Backend

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.

Get to know the team

Join our engineering team at Grab, where your work sits at the heart of how millions of people experience payments every day. We're passionate about building and improving our Payments SDK, which powers core capabilities like adding payment methods, listing, transactions, and more. You'll help shape features to serve both consumers and partners, and you'll create an impact that will reach massive scale. We value technical thinking, curiosity, and people who bring new perspectives to one of Southeast Asia's most widely used apps.

Get to know the role

We're looking for a Lead Software Engineer who can drive technical direction, guide engineers, and deliver reliable and scalable systems for Grab's payments ecosystem. You'll take ownership of main problem areas, influence architecture across services, and partner with engineering, product, and design teams. You will be reporting to an Engineering Manager.

Workplace Type: Onsite at our Bangalore office

What You Will Lead and Deliver

• Set technical direction for backend services and lead the design of systems that improve availability, scalability, latency, and overall performance.
• Write high-quality Go code and guide others toward engineering practices through design and code reviews.
• Guide architectural improvements across Payments, partnering with engineers across teams to build systems that scale with growing demand.
• Work with infrastructure teams to evolve service foundations, improve observability, and ensure smooth rollout of new capabilities.
• Mentor engineers, help them grow in technical depth, and create a healthy, collaborative engineering environment.
• Collaborate with product and design teams to shape features, validate assumptions, and build reliable user-facing experiences.

• Bring 10 years of experience in a relevant field, with payments domain experience.
• Build backend systems, including DBMS, caches, NoSQL, and app servers.
• You will use your proficiency in at least one programming language, such as Java or Golang, while applying knowledge of computer science fundamentals like data structures, algorithms, and operating systems.
• You will demonstrate proactivity, creativity, and a ability to balance the needs of product, engineering, and business.
• You will use your experience with distributed systems to build scalable and reliable solutions.
• Add value with your experience in building consumer-facing products.
• Contribute your knowledge of developing OLTP systems and performance.
• Experience deploying code in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud environments

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.

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.