Engineering Lead: Hands-On Architect for Microservices

NSS IT Solution Sdn Bhd; Cyberjaya; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Go Hub Capital Bhd is seeking an engineering leader to drive team execution, culture, and roadmap while contributing technically. You’ll architect a microservice platform on Kubernetes and a monolithic architecture, owning design to production across container-native stacks.

You’ll lead a 6-12 person team, run agile ceremonies, coordinate with product, DevOps, SRE, and security, and push for code quality, observability, and reliable operations.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5-8+ years of experience in full-stack software engineering, with at least 2 years of experience leading or managing engineering teams.
• Strong experience with databases and data platforms, including PostgreSQL, MSSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Cosmos DB, Firebase, and Supabase.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including workloads, networking, RBAC, resource management and limits, Docker image authoring, multi-stage builds, and image layer optimisation.
• Experience designing and managing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Tekton.
• Solid understanding of API architecture and design patterns, including GraphQL, REST, and gRPC, as well as API versioning best practices.
• Experience with asynchronous messaging and event-driven architectures using Kafka, AWS SQS/SNS, or Azure Service Bus/Event Hub.
• Production-level experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Datadog, New Relic, or Grafana.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of 6-12 engineers; own hiring, onboarding, performance, and career development.
• Run agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives, and cross-team coordination.
• Collaborate with product, DevOps, SRE, and security stakeholders to align on roadmap priorities.
• Translate complex technical trade-offs into clear recommendations for non-technical leadership.
• Foster a culture of code quality, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Define and track team-level KPIs: deployment frequency, MTTR, cycle time, test coverage.
• Actively write, review, and merge production-grade code in the team's primary language(s).
• Design and document microservice contracts, API schemas, and event interfaces.
• Author and review Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, and resource configurations.
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead postmortems for critical incidents.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipeline templates used across the team's services.
• Instrument services with distributed tracing, metrics, and structured logging (OpenTelemetry stack).
• Drive security-by-default practices: container image scanning, RBAC, secret management, network policies.
• Evaluate and prototype new tooling, before broader rollout.

Skills

Leadership

Kubernetes

CI/CD

API design

Distributed tracing

On-call

Team mentoring

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Tekton

Job description

Go Hub Capital Bhd is seeking an engineering leader to drive team execution, culture, and roadmap while contributing technically. You’ll architect a microservice platform on Kubernetes and a monolithic architecture, owning design to production across container-native stacks.

You’ll lead a 6-12 person team, run agile ceremonies, coordinate with product, DevOps, SRE, and security, and push for code quality, observability, and reliable operations.