Engineering Manager II, Payments

Get to Know the Team

At Grab Financial Group (GrabFin), we're building the future of payments in Southeast Asia. As Engineering Manager, you will lead an engineering team to work with other partners in the organisation, e.g., Product Managers, Business Lead, Operations, to solve the settlement problems at our core payment systems and to achieve the best settlement solutions to our merchants. You will require Payments domain knowledge, solid technical skills, strategic guidance, and technical leadership.

Get to Know the Role

You will lead an engineering team consisting of software engineers and QAs, responsible for designing, building, and operating our Settlement Platform for Payments. Our solutions are mission-critical, operating 24/7 in some of the most dynamic and diverse markets in the world. Reliability, security, compliance, and speed are not optional – they are the baseline.

You will report to a Senior Engineering Manager at Payments and work onsite at Grab India office at Bengaluru.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Lead the execution of product and engineering strategy. Ensure understanding of our goals and changing priorities. Guide cycle planning and team OKRs to deliver measurable outcomes.
• Embrace "platformization" – creating reusable, scalable capabilities that serve multiple markets and meet future goals.
• Manage operational excellence and platform efficiency. Participating in On-Call rotations is mandatory.
• Improve engineering standards and culture, promoting ownership, skilfulness, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Manage programmes to improve the team's software development lifecycle, with a focus on enhancing productivity, reducing technical debt, and optimising processes.
• Work with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, operations, and partners, to build the best products. Define clear goals, deliverables, and success metrics for projects.
• Provide technical guidance, participating in design and code reviews. 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 learning and progress.
• Adapt and excel in an international work environment, demonstrating experience with execution capabilities.