Senior Engineering Manager

Company Description

About Grab and Our Workplace

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

As a Senior Engineering Manager in Payment Acquiring Experience function, you will lead the delivery, and operation of mission-critical systems. These systems move money for millions of customers and merchants every day. Reliability, security, compliance, and speed are non-negotiable in these systems.

You will lead teams of senior engineers, partner with Product, Risk, Compliance, and other teams, and shape the long-term technical strategy for our payments stack. You will set the bar for engineering excellence, grow leaders, and promote a culture of ownership, expertise, and continuous improvement.

This role is for someone who excels at the intersection of deep technical leadership, partner and people management — and who is energised by building world-class systems at scale.

You will report to a Senior Engineering Manager who heads the Payment Acquiring Experience vertical and work onsite at our office in Bangalore, India.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of payments domain expertise with experience building and operating large-scale payment acquiring platforms.
• Experience with the payments value chain – familiarity with payment networks, settlement and reconciliation, fraud prevention, KYC/AML, risk management, and regional regulatory landscapes in Southeast Asia.
• Hands-on experience with modern payment technology stacks – including backend architectures (microservices, GoLang, AWS), mobile payment integrations, tokenization, encryption, and real-time transaction processing.
• Experience building resilient, high-availability systems that can handle high transaction volumes with zero downtime in mission-critical environments.
• Product partnership skills – able to co-create roadmaps with product and business teams, aligning technical investments with evolving market opportunities and customer needs.
• Operational and compliance excellence with an ability to implement best practices in observability, service level agreements, security, data governance, and regulatory reporting.

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.