Lead Software Engineer, Backend

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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.