Senior Backend Software Engineer (Payments) at Grab

Role overview

Grab’s FundsCore Platform team builds payment systems that settle accurately with large numbers of merchants. This senior backend role works on site at CMC Creative Space in Ho Chi Minh City and reports to an engineering manager in Singapore.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate scalable backend services with attention to performance, cost, reliability and maintainability.
• Own features from requirements and technical design through implementation, testing, deployment and post-launch monitoring.
• Lead design reviews and evaluate reliability, latency, throughput and cost trade-offs.
• Instrument services with metrics, logs and traces; define service objectives, improve alerting and plan capacity.
• Improve CI/CD, testing, documentation and secure end-to-end workflows across teams.
• Mentor engineers, participate in on-call incident response and support technical hiring interviews.

Qualifications

• Hold a computer science or software engineering degree and bring at least five years of backend development experience.
• Use Go proficiently, including concurrency and application optimisation, with solid algorithms and data structures knowledge.
• Work with MySQL or PostgreSQL, including query performance and database reliability.
• Design scalable cloud microservices on AWS or GCP and automate infrastructure with Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
• Practice TDD, CI/CD, Git, Jenkins and unit testing, and communicate fluently in English.
• Apply AI coding tools such as Copilot, Claude Code or Cursor to coding, debugging, testing and review, and use AI to improve incident investigation and system design.

Technology in this role

• AWS: Design scalable cloud microservices on AWS or GCP and automate infrastructure with Terraform or AWS .
• GCP: Design scalable cloud microservices on AWS or GCP and automate infrastructure with Terraform or AWS .
• Go: Use Go proficiently, including concurrency and application optimisation, with solid algorithms and data structures .
• Golang: • Proficiency in Golang, with an understanding of its syntax, semantics, standard libraries, concurrency features, and experience optimizing .
• PostgreSQL: Work with MySQL or PostgreSQL, including query performance and database .
• MySQL: Work with MySQL or PostgreSQL, including query performance and database .
• Terraform: Design scalable cloud microservices on AWS or GCP and automate infrastructure with Terraform or AWS .
• Git: Practice TDD, CI/CD, Git, Jenkins and unit testing, and communicate fluently in .
• Jenkins: Practice TDD, CI/CD, Git, Jenkins and unit testing, and communicate fluently in .
• CI/CD: Improve CI/CD, testing, documentation and secure end-to-end workflows across .

Role-specific candidate guide

Preparation notes based on the employer’s stated responsibilities and qualifications.

Understanding the scope. This Senior Software Engineer, Backend position at Grab is best assessed through the work described in the employer’s posting, rather than the title alone. The available role overview says: “Grab’s FundsCore Platform team builds payment systems that settle accurately with large numbers of merchants. This senior backend role works on site at CMC Creative Space in Ho Chi Minh City and reports to an…” Read that statement together with the responsibilities below to understand the likely balance between delivery, coordination and technical decision-making. The role belongs to the software engineering area, but that label is only a guide to the work; the employer’s own requirements remain decisive. Before applying, check the original listing for reporting lines, product or team assignment, employment terms and any details that may have changed since this copy was checked. Where this page says a fact is not specified, treat it as an open question rather than an implied promise.

What the responsibilities signal. The posting specifically names “Design and operate scalable backend services with attention to performance, cost, reliability and maintainability.”; “Own features from requirements and technical design through implementation, testing, deployment and post-launch monitoring.”; “Lead design reviews and evaluate reliability, latency, throughput and cost trade-offs.”. For each duty, identify a project where you performed comparable work and be ready to describe the context, your own contribution, constraints, decisions, and measurable result. Explain how you moved from the initial need to implementation, review, release or operational follow-through, where those stages apply. If the work involved other teams or users, distinguish your decisions from the group’s contribution. Avoid presenting a technology keyword as proof by itself: connect it to the problem you solved, the scale or complexity.

Benefits

• 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.
• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours
• 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.

About Grab

Grab operates a Southeast Asian app spanning transport, deliveries and financial services. FundsCore supports payment settlement for merchants.

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