Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Payments)

Company Description

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.

Job Description

Get to Know the Team

FundsFlow Experience team plays a crucial role in powering liquidity for Grab, providing seamless and smooth experiences for millions of customers across Southeast Asia. Our mission is to allow anyone, including the unbanked, to access digital cash quickly and affordably. Whether it's topping up wallets or cashing out funds, our systems ensure transactions happen smoothly.

Get to Know the Role

We are looking for a passionate Senior backend Engineer with the required skills and more to join our payments team. You will offer exciting challenges, including the opportunity to lead groundbreaking architectural advancements. You will have opportunities to design backend components. You'll reporting to Software Engineering Manager II. The working arrangement for this role is hybrid.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You will work within the payments on FundsFlow Experience, helping improve product engineering vision
• We aim to build services that delight our customers. Participate in discovery sessions, perform R&D, and seek and use Generative AI is important to your success on the team
• You will participate in code reviews, testing, debugging, performance tuning, and capacity planning
• You will propose and implement new features, algorithms, and architectures for platform enhancement that can allow other developers to work at high velocity.
• You will design new features alongside business owners, engineering managers, and product managers
• You will investigate and resolve production issues to ensure minimal downtime and user impact as part of your On-call responsibilities to ensure we continue to provide service uptime and delight customers with continued service availability

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• We are looking for someone with at least 4 years of experience in backend engineering
• You have solid software engineering and coding skills, with proficiency in GoLang and other programming languages
• You have experience with RDBMS with unit testing Junit, and mocking frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with an In-depth understanding of Idempotency, CAP theorem, and Distributed Consensus.
• You have experience with with observability tooling e.g. Datadog or tooling of similar utility
• You have experience working with large-scale payment processing systems
• Experience with Microservice architecture, GRPC, REST API, Kafka, SQS

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 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.