Assistant Manager, Technology-Engineering

liberty pte. limited; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Liberty PTE. LIMITED in Singapore leading an engineering team to build scalable, maintainable products with a focus on Singapore/Hong Kong markets. The Lead engineer works across business units to drive architecture choices, orchestrate features, and mentor engineers while delivering high‑quality software.

You will partner with Product, QA, and DevOps, implement AI‑assisted development practices, and ensure security, observability, and performance across distributed systems.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with 2–4+ years in a technical lead or senior role.
• Strong backend and frontend development experience with modern frameworks.
• Proven system design skills for scalable, distributed architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and architecture discussions; own technical decisions and trade-offs.
• Collaborate with Regional Architecture to define target state for Market tech landscape.
• Integrate with finance systems, payment gateways, banks, fintech partners, and vendors.
• Hands-on coding; unblock the team and deliver critical components.
• Mentor engineers; conduct 1:1s and support career development and hiring.
• Plan work; estimate effort; prioritize tasks; drive sprint execution and releases.
• Ensure quality: testing strategies, observability, and monitoring.
• Drive CI/CD, automated testing, and deployment pipelines.
• Collaborate with Product/QA/DevOps to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Manage technical debt and enforce security, compliance and performance best practices.
• Track engineering metrics and act on them.

Skills

Software engineering

System design

Backend development

Frontend development

Java

Spring Boot

React/Angular

AWS

CI/CD

Docker

GitHub Actions

Terraform/CloudFormation

SQL/NoSQL

Observability/Monitoring

Vendor management

Tools

Docker

GitHub Copilot

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

AWS

Job description

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.

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.

Requirements:

• 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.