Manager/Assistant Manager (Technical Lead), Product System

Job Summary

Acting as a Lead in the engineering team to drive a scalable, maintainable products and improve engineering practices. Especially with Singapore/ Hong Kong-focused projects, working closely with different business units and driving the technical and architecture design to achieve the Company’s goals. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead design and architecture discussions for new features and platform improvements; own technical decisions and trade-offs.

• Work closely with the Regional Architecture team to define and document the target state / North star for the Market tech landscape.

• Manage integration with finance systems, payment gateways, processors, banks, fintech partners, and third-party vendors.

• Write and review code, implement critical components, and unblock the team through hands-on contributions.

• Mentor and grow engineers: provide feedback, conduct 1:1s, support career development and hiring.

• Plan and deliver work: break down requirements, estimate effort, prioritize tasks, drive sprint execution and releases.

• Ensure quality and reliability: Leverage AI assisted coding to drive productivity, enforce code reviews, testing strategy (unit/integration/e2e), observability and monitoring.

• Drive CI/CD, automated testing and deployment pipelines; improve development productivity and reduce lead time.

• Collaborate with Product, QA, DevOps and Stakeholders to define requirements into technical solutions, acceptance criteria and delivery timelines.

• Manage technical debt: identify, prioritize and drive remediation work alongside feature delivery.

• Ensure security, compliance and performance, best practices are followed- Embed shift-left security model, threat modeling into design reviews earlier in SDLC.

• Track and report engineering metrics (velocity, cycle time, defect rate, availability) and act on them.

Job Qualifications:

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with 2–4+ years in a technical lead or senior engineering role.

• Strong programming experience in at least one backend/front-end language ( Java 8 and latest version, Spring boot, Spring MVC, Angular, React)

• Proven system design skills for building scalable, distributed systems (microservices, event-driven architectures).

• Experience in insurance, banking or fintech services.

• Familiarity with payment compliance, security, and regulatory requirements.

• AI-Assisted Development, testing & Debugging : Experience using GitHub Copilot Agent mode for rapid prototyping, debugging, autonomously correct code issues and iterative development.

• Practical experience with cloud platforms (AWS) and containerization (Docker).

• Experience with CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation).

• Solid understanding of databases (SQL and NoSQL), caching, and messaging systems.

• Familiarity with testing strategies, automated test frameworks and observability tools (logs, metrics, tracing).

• Strong problem-solving, debugging and performance tuning skills.

• Excellent verbal and written communication; comfortable working with cross-functional stakeholders.

• Experience in vendor management.