Senior Software Engineer, Mobile (Android)

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.

Get to Know the Team

The Payments team sits at the center of the Grab experience. We build the mobile payment journeys that users rely on every day from checkout and stored payment methods to transaction reliability and security. Our work directly impacts conversion, user confidence, and platform growth across multiple products and markets.

Get to know the Role:

We are looking for a strong Android engineer to help shape the future of payments on Grab. This is a role for someone who cares deeply about product quality, technical craft, and building systems that perform reliably at scale.

You will work on highly visible, business-critical flows used by millions of users across Southeast Asia. You'll partner closely with product, design, backend, risk, and platform teams to build intuitive payment experiences that are fast, secure.

You will be reporting to Software Engineering Manager II

The Day-to-Day Activities:

• Design, build, and maintain Android features powering Grab's payment experience
• Deliver high-quality, scalable, and resilient mobile solutions for critical user journeys
• Improve app performance, reliability, observability, and engineering quality in payment flows
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate product goals into robust technical solutions
• Contribute to architecture, technical design, code reviews, and engineering standards
• Troubleshoot production issues and help drive operational excellence
• Use data and experimentation to improve customer experience and business outcomes
• Improve code quality, maintainability, and developer productivity within the team

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Strong software engineering fundamentals with solid 5+ years experience building Android applications in production
• Proficiency in Kotlin and a strong understanding of modern Android development
• Experience building maintainable mobile architectures and shipping user-facing features at scale
• Good understanding of performance, reliability, testing, debugging, and release best practices on Android
• Experience integrating with backend services and handling complex client-server interactions
• Break down ambiguous problems and deliver pragmatic, high-quality solutions
• Strong collaboration in a cross-functional environment
• A product mindset and a high standard for user experience
• Experience working on payments, fintech, checkout, authentication, or other high-trust product areas
• Familiarity with Android architecture components, Coroutines, Jetpack, and modern development tooling
• Experience with experimentation, instrumentation, and data-informed product development
• Knowledge of secure coding and mobile application security practices
• Experience working in large-scale consumer technology environments

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

What We Stand For At Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.