You will report to a Senior Engineering Manager and work onsite at Grab Singapore office at One-North.
Work type: Grab has 5-day in office working.
The Critical Tasks You Will Perform
Lead the planning and execution of product and engineering strategy and roadmap. Ensure alignment with business goals and changing priorities. Drive cycle planning and team OKRs to deliver measurable outcomes.
Embrace "platformization" – creating reusable, scalable capabilities that serve multiple markets and meet future business goals.
Own operational excellence and platform efficiency. Participating in On-Call rotations is mandatory.
Improve high for engineering standards and culture, fostering ownership, skillfulness, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Drive initiatives to improve the team's software development lifecycle, with a focus on enhancing productivity, reducing technical debt, and optimizing processes.
Work with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, operations, and business stakeholders, to build best-in-class products. Define clear objectives, deliverables, and success metrics for projects.
Provide technical guidance, participating in design and code reviews to maintain high quality. Apply hands-on coding expertise, with a focus on scalable, secure, testable, and maintainable systems.
Recruit, mentor, and retain engineering talent. Provide clear growth pathways for team members and cultivate a culture of continuous learning and innovation.
Experienced navigating complex problems in an agile work environment.
What Essential Skills You Will Need
Solid foundation in computer science, with expertise in algorithms, data structures, and software engineering principles.
At least 8 years of professional experience in software engineering, with hands-on coding skills and an understanding of scalable architectures
Experience with building and scaling engineering teams (3+ years managing teams of 8+ engineers), with hands-on technical skills in backend (Golang), or web development. Familiarity with engineering best practices for system scalability, availability, testability, maintainability, and security.
(microservices, Golang) and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS).
Hands-on experience working with advanced data technologies (e.g., OLAP, OLTP, MPP, Streaming) to solve problems at large-scale. Experience in building platforms is an advantage.
Experience translating business models or product spec into technical architectures that allow growth, monetization, and compliance without compromising scalability or reliability
Operational and compliance excellence – ability to implement best practices in observability, SLAs, security, data governance, and regulatory reporting.
Solid domain expertise in Payments - understanding of gateway, acquirer, fund flows, e.g., reconciliation, and settlement.
Hands-on experience with modern payment technology stacks – including backend architectures, payment integrations, tokenization, encryption, real-time transaction processing, and offline transaction processing.
Experience managing diverse teams. Experienced in coaching and inspire others, and building a collaborative team environment.
Experienced in influencing stakeholders across different cultures and regions.
Experience working with global teams and collaborating on cross-regional projects.
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.
