Job Description
Get to know our Team
Join the FundsCore Recon Platform team at Grab - a dynamic team building a reliable platform to address challenging problems in the Payments domain. We are a team of engineers, designers, product managers, and operations who innovate and collaborate to solve one of the most challenging problems - enabling accurate reconciliation with many financial partners. This role prefers you have certain Payments domain expertise or demonstrate quick-learning skills.
Get to Know the Role
You will be responsible for designing, building and maintaining one of our Payments Core (FundsCore) platforms which includes complex backend systems and data pipelines to meet both functional and non-functional requirements.
You will contribute to our Operational Excellence and mentoring juniors in the team. You will report to an Engineering Manager II and work onsite at Grab One-North office in Singapore.
The Critical Tasks You Will Perform
- Design, develop, and maintain high-quality, scalable software applications that meet business and non-functional requirements
- Write clean, efficient, testable, and maintainable code to solve challenging problems in the Fintech domain
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new features
- Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality, ensure proper technical documentation, and facilitate knowledge sharing
- Troubleshoot and debug complex issues, providing fixes and implementing long-term sustainable solutions
- Contribute to architectural decisions and the technical direction of projects
- Ensure system reliability and availability through observability practices and drive continuous improvements in Operational Excellence; participate in On-Call rotations is mandatory
- Provide DevOps support to the team to ensure system health and performance
- Mentor junior engineers and interns, encouraging a culture of learning and improvement
- Stay current with latest industry trends and technologies; leverage Generative AI tools to enhance productivity and improve system capabilities
Qualifications
What Essential Skills You Will Need
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures
- Address not only happy path scenarios but also handle edge cases and unhappy paths effectively
- 4+ years of relevant software development experience with proficiency in one or more major programming languages such as Golang (preferred), Java, or demonstrated ability to quickly acquire necessary technical skills
- Experience with clean architecture principles, data-driven application design, and large-scale data processing
- Proven experience building large-scale distributed systems utilizing DBMS, caching solutions, NoSQL databases, and application servers (RESTful and gRPC) while ensuring data consistency
- Hands-on experience with microservices architecture, cloud platforms (e.g., Amazon Web Services), and DevOps practices
- Operational and compliance excellence – ability to implement solutions that meet requirements for Observability, SLAs, Security, Data Governance, and Regulatory compliance
- Write efficient, extensible, and thoroughly tested code for complex projects, selecting appropriate abstractions that follow SOLID principles
- Write effective design documents and maintain up-to-date documentation (e.g., runbooks)
- Demonstrated experience with learning new technologies and business domains, with experience applying Generative AI to enhance work productivity;
- Experience in the Payments domain (e.g., settlement and reconciliation)