Technical Lead – FinTech Platform & Payments (Malaysia)

Kaiyiee Global Talent; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaiyiee Global Talent is seeking an experienced Technical Lead to guide architecture, engineering leadership and technology delivery for a FinTech platform in Malaysia. The role requires strong financial-domain experience and a track record of delivering scalable, secure systems.

You will own the technical roadmap, lead 10–30 engineers, coordinate with product, risk and compliance teams, and ensure production reliability across cross-border payments, brokerage or trading workflows.

Qualifications

• Substantial backend engineering and financial technology experience.
• Strong ownership of architecture and delivery for production systems.
• 3+ years in technical leadership or team management.
• Experience leading teams of 5–30 people preferred.
• Secure, scalable distributed systems and high availability.

Responsibilities

• Own technical architecture, system design and tech roadmap for fintech platforms.
• Drive architecture decisions for scalability, availability, performance and security.
• Establish technical standards and evolve backend systems and microservices.
• Lead and develop a team of 10–30 engineers, plan resources and delivery.
• Translate business goals into technical roadmaps and milestones.
• Collaborate with product, risk and compliance to deliver reliable fintech solutions.
• Own production stability, incident management and root-cause analysis.
• Work with securities brokerage or cross-border payments domains; address concurrency and data integrity.
• Push for backend excellence and explore AI-assisted engineering as appropriate.

Skills

Java

Go

Microservices

MySQL

Redis

Kafka

Architecture

Leadership

Security

Cloud

Education

Bachelor's degree or above in CS/SE

Tools

Spring Boot

Spring Cloud

Job description

Kaiyiee Global Talent is seeking an experienced Technical Lead to guide architecture, engineering leadership and technology delivery for a FinTech platform in Malaysia. The role requires strong financial-domain experience and a track record of delivering scalable, secure systems.

You will own the technical roadmap, lead 10–30 engineers, coordinate with product, risk and compliance teams, and ensure production reliability across cross-border payments, brokerage or trading workflows.