Remote Lead Engineer - Wealth Management Platform

Bjak; Hong Kong; Hybrid; HKD 942,000 - 1,413,000; Full time

Job summary

KIRA is seeking a Lead Engineer to take technical ownership of complex products and systems, driving engineering excellence across the team. This is a hands-on leadership role, requiring design decisions, coding, reviews, and guiding engineers toward robust, scalable solutions.

You will move between architecture and implementation, influence across teams, and collaborate with product, design, and AI groups to ship high-quality products globally.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with production systems experience.
• Proven ability to lead major engineering initiatives and guide other engineers.
• Experience designing scalable, reliable architectures across backend/frontend APIs and databases.
• Hands-on coding while guiding teams and architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and execution of major products and initiatives.
• Design scalable systems across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure.
• Stay hands-on with coding, prototyping, reviews, debugging and production problem-solving.
• Make architecture decisions, balance speed, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Mentor engineers and strengthen technical capability across the team.
• Work with AI, product, design to ship high-quality products quickly.

Skills

Leadership

System design

Distributed systems

Code review

Mentoring

Job description

KIRA is seeking a Lead Engineer to take technical ownership of complex products and systems, driving engineering excellence across the team. This is a hands-on leadership role, requiring design decisions, coding, reviews, and guiding engineers toward robust, scalable solutions.

You will move between architecture and implementation, influence across teams, and collaborate with product, design, and AI groups to ship high-quality products globally.