Staff Software Engineer, Consumer Payments (Growth)
Hybrid (Singapore)full-timePosted 2w ago
About the role
Staff Software Engineer (Technical Lead) for Consumer Payments in Singapore. Lead technical direction across multiple domains, partner with cross-functional teams, and contribute high-impact code and architecture for scalable payment systems while promoting AI-accelerated development workflows.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the technical strategy across multiple areas within consumer payments, prioritizing efforts across different market-specific growth initiatives.
- Write scalable, maintainable code and design architecture for critical, high-ambiguity system components. Use data and technical judgment to simplify domain complexity and guide targeted investments that eliminate technical debt.
- Partner with Directors, PMs, UX, and TPMs across Singapore and global engineering centers to drive consensus and align technical strategies across markets.
- Advocate for AI-accelerated development workflows by defining team-wide policies for the verification, security, and maintenance of AI-generated code.
- Provide technical guidance and oversight to multiple concurrent workstreams, acting as an "Uber TL" rather than being tied to a single delivery team. Mentor and coach senior engineers across multiple areas, set high-bar engineering standards, and conduct rigorous design/code reviews.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience programming in Java, Go, C++, Python, or equivalent codebases.
- 8 years of experience designing, building, and operating scalable backend distributed systems, microservices architectures, or high-throughput APIs.
- 6 years of experience leading the end-to-end strategy, execution, and launch of multi-quarter software engineering projects.
- 6 years of experience with software architecture, driving technical consensus among globally distributed stakeholders.
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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