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Entry LevelFull-timeRails
Salary Range
$36,720 - $49,680 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
Grab Financial Group (GFin) is building the future of payments in Southeast Asia. As a Principal Engineer for Payments, you will be the technical driver behind the architecture and delivery of regional-scale payments platforms across multiple ecosystems.
Key Responsibilities
- →Own design and delivery of mission-critical payment systems with high availability, low latency, and strict correctness
- →Define core payments architecture and drive platformization with clear domains, stable APIs, event contracts, data models, and versioning
- →Build resilient integrations to card networks, banks, APMs, and real-time rails that tolerate changes and outages
- →Champion reliability, observability, security, compliance, scalability, operability, and cost with SRE and Security
- →Lead regionalization across currency, localization, regulation, and scheme needs with safe rollouts and migrations
- →Make pragmatic, data-driven decisions that balance impact, speed, and maintainability
- →Author and review design docs/RFCs, lead architecture reviews, set coding/testing standards
- →Lead by example with prototypes and critical-path builds, mentor senior and staff engineers
Requirements
- ✓Extensive experience in designing and delivering high-volume, high-availability payment systems
- ✓Strong technical leadership with hands-on implementation capabilities
- ✓Deep understanding of payment methods, regulatory regimes, and technical integration challenges
- ✓Experience with platformization, API design, and event-driven architectures
- ✓Proven ability to lead complex multi-quarter initiatives and mentor senior engineers
