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Technical Lead (Backend)

In short

Technical Lead role owning architecture and technology choices for large-scale digital asset financial systems, with final accountability for reliability, performance, and maintainability. The company is a digital asset financial services platform bridging traditional finance and digital markets. Requires 6+ years of backend engineering experience including 3+ years leading teams, expertise in Golang or Rust, deep knowledge of distributed systems and MySQL transaction isolation, plus professional Mandarin proficiency for team collaboration. Based onsite in Singapore with Employment Pass sponsorship available.

Introduction
A digital asset financial services platform operating at the intersection of traditional finance and digital markets, underpinned by disciplined governance, infrastructure, and risk frameworks.
Full Time | Onsite | Singapore (EP sponsorship available)
Compensation: Negotiable
Responsibilities
1.Own the overall architecture and technology choices for the systems under your remit, with final accountability for their reliability, performance, and maintainability.
2.Lead design and review of critical modules, and drive high-complexity or high-risk initiatives with well-controlled, executable plans.
3.Define the roadmap for system quality — including technical debt reduction, reusable middleware and libraries, and integration testing infrastructure.
4.Set goals, run performance reviews, and lead hiring and development across the engineering teams in your department.
5.Understand needs across business, product, operations, and risk, and allocate engineering resources accordingly.
6.Establish engineering processes and standards built for the AI era, and lead the team in applying AI pragmatically to raise delivery quality and efficiency.
Requirements
1.6+ years of backend engineering experience, including 3+ years leading engineering teams.
2.Expert in Golang or Rust, with hands-on experience building and maintaining large-scale applications. Comfortable with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, and SQL.
3.Deep understanding of MySQL transaction isolation levels and their common patterns in real-world application development.
4.Familiarity with standard cloud services, AWS in particular — EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, VPC, ELB, etc.
5.Extensive experience designing, operating, and evolving distributed systems, with a deep understanding of their complexity across transactional semantics, data consistency, testability, and observability — and proven methods for managing it.
6.Professional working proficiency in Mandarin for technical discussion and management communication, as the team collaborates primarily in Mandarin; proficient in written English.
7.Eligible to work in Singapore, or eligible for an Employment Pass.
Nice to Have
1.Experience building financial services such as asset management, trading, or payments, with familiarity in clearing and settlement, risk management, and double-entry bookkeeping.
2.Familiarity with derivatives, structured products, or DeFi products.
3.Experience managing cross-regional or remote teams.

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