Backend Tech Lead — Cloud-Native Go for Real-Time Platform

Newbridge; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Newbridge is seeking a Backend Technical Lead in Singapore to own the backend vision for a fast-scaling, cloud-native platform. You will drive architecture, end-to-end delivery, and operational maturity for a high-traffic, real-time system, partnering with Product and Infrastructure teams.

You will champion engineering best practices, mentor engineers, and lead technical initiatives across teams, with hands-on Golang and strong distributed-systems experience in a scalable environment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Golang expert building production-grade systems.
• Strong concurrency, profiling, and optimization skills.
• Experience designing scalable REST APIs and system integrations.
• Proficient SQL with PostgreSQL or similar.
• Experience with Kafka and real-time protocols WebSockets/MQTT.
• Experience operating production systems at scale.
• Cloud-native stack experience: AWS or Azure; Docker, Kubernetes.
• Familiar with IaC (Terraform) and observability tools (Datadog, Sentry).
• Experience in high-throughput, real-time platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve backend architecture, system design, and technical roadmap for a distributed, high-traffic platform.
• Own end-to-end delivery of backend services - from design to deployment to production ownership.
• Build for high availability, performance, and security.
• Champion engineering best practices through design reviews, code quality, and pragmatic build-vs-scale decisions.
• Architect and scale event-driven and asynchronous workflows for real-time operations.
• Drive database performance, indexing strategy, and cost optimization.
• Lead production troubleshooting, incident management and root cause analysis.
• Partner with DevOps to strengthen CI/CD, observability, monitoring and reliability.
• Mentor engineers and lead technical initiatives across teams.

Skills

Golang

Concurrency

REST APIs

SQL

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Cloud-native

CI/CD

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Datadog

Sentry

PostgreSQL

Kafka

WebSockets

MQTT

Job description

Newbridge is seeking a Backend Technical Lead in Singapore to own the backend vision for a fast-scaling, cloud-native platform. You will drive architecture, end-to-end delivery, and operational maturity for a high-traffic, real-time system, partnering with Product and Infrastructure teams.

You will champion engineering best practices, mentor engineers, and lead technical initiatives across teams, with hands-on Golang and strong distributed-systems experience in a scalable environment.