AI Applications Lead & Systems Architect

Triwill Group; Singapore; On-site; SGD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Triwill Group is seeking a Technical Lead, Applications to own the core architecture linking AI systems with real-world user experiences. You will guide backend, mobile, and desktop engineering, ensure system reliability, and lead a senior team to deliver scalable, production-grade products.

You will set architectural direction for AI-powered workflows, partner with ML leadership, and drive decisions on latency, cost, and user experience, balancing speed with long-term quality.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading application or product engineering for complex systems.
• Hands-on background building and shipping backend systems used in production.
• Experience delivering AI-powered products with model integration trade-offs.
• Excellent system design skills across services, APIs, clients, and data flows.
• Ability to operate across backend, mobile, and desktop platforms.
• Proven ability to make high-impact technical decisions under ambiguity.
• Strong bias toward shipping, iteration, and learning from real-world usage.
• Move fast without breaking fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Own the application engineering strategy and execution across backend, mobile, and desktop.
• Lead and grow a small, senior applications team, including backend, mobile, and desktop engineers.
• Ensure production-grade reliability: observability, monitoring, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling.
• Set the architectural direction for AI-powered product workflows, APIs, and client integrations.
• Ensure AI capabilities are integrated into the product with clear abstractions, predictable behavior, and graceful failure modes.
• Partner closely with Machine Learning leadership to translate model capability into shippable product features.
• Make high-impact decisions across latency, cost, reliability, and user experience.
• Establish a strong execution culture through code reviews, design reviews, and hands-on technical leadership.
• Ensure production readiness: privacy and cost controls.
• Balance speed and discipline – shipping quickly without compromising long-term system quality.

Skills

Technical leadership

Backend system design

AI-powered product integration

System reliability

Cross-platform development

Architectural decision making

Code reviews & design reviews

Delivery under ambiguity

Job description

Triwill Group is seeking a Technical Lead, Applications to own the core architecture linking AI systems with real-world user experiences. You will guide backend, mobile, and desktop engineering, ensure system reliability, and lead a senior team to deliver scalable, production-grade products.

You will set architectural direction for AI-powered workflows, partner with ML leadership, and drive decisions on latency, cost, and user experience, balancing speed with long-term quality.