Engineering Manager, Backend - Financial Products

Matrixport; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

BIT, formerly Matrixport, is seeking an Engineering Manager, Backend in Singapore. You will lead a 15–20 person team across locations, setting technical direction and owning delivery.

You will drive architecture, code reviews, and hands-on problem solving for high-concurrency systems. You must guide the team’s growth, manage scope and schedules, and promote async collaboration while working with product and business stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in backend engineering with strong architecture and design
• 3+ years leading teams of 10+ people
• Experience shipping high-concurrency distributed systems

Responsibilities

• Own overall architecture and technology choices for backend systems
• Lead design reviews and hands-on coding for critical modules
• Drive technical debt reduction and AI tooling adoption across the team
• Manage delivery end-to-end across multiple locations and async collaboration
• Set goals, evaluate performance, and guide career growth for team members

Skills

Golang

Distributed systems

Backend leadership

Team management

Mandarin proficiency

English proficiency

Job description

About the Company

BIT (formerly Matrixport) is a global digital asset financial services and infrastructure group. Headquartered in Singapore and founded in 2019, BIT bridges traditional finance and digital assets through governance-driven financial services and technology. The firm manages over US$7 billion in assets and facilitates more than US$7 billion in monthly trading volume. BIT offers services including custody, trading, asset and wealth management, liquidity and financing solutions, and tokenised real-world assets (RWA), serving institutional and professional investors globally. BIT Group entities maintain a licensed and regulated footprint across Singapore, Hong Kong, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States and Bhutan. For more information, visit www.bit.com

About the Role

Engineering Manager, Backend — Singapore

A hands-on engineering leadership role: you'll set technical direction and own delivery for a team of 15–20 across different locations.

Responsibilities

Technical Direction

• Own the overall architecture and technology choices for the systems under your remit, and carry final accountability for their reliability, performance, and ability to evolve.
• Contribute to design and code review on critical modules, and go hands-on yourself to diagnose and decide on high-complexity or high-risk problems.
• Identify and pay down technical debt, making explicit, defensible trade-offs between delivery pace and system health — rather than letting the trade-off be made by default.
• Drive the adoption of AI tooling across the team's day-to-day workflow (requirements breakdown, coding, testing, code review, documentation), and establish verifiable standards for the quality of what it produces.

Delivery & Team

• Take on business requirements end to end: scope breakdown, scheduling, and resource allocation, owning the scope, quality, and timeline of what ships.
• Build durable working relationships with product, business, and upstream/downstream teams, and hold the team's delivery rhythm steady in an environment of frequent requirement changes.
• Lead a team distributed across four locations: establish async collaboration norms and information-sharing mechanisms so that remote members are not at a disadvantage in either information or opportunity.
• Own goal-setting, performance evaluation, and growth paths for your team; identify high performers, address gaps, and make personnel changes where necessary.
• Participate in hiring: define the candidate profile, uphold the technical interview bar, and own the talent density of the team.

Requirements

• 8+ years in backend engineering, including 3+ years leading teams, with direct ownership of a team of 10 or more.
• Strong engineering depth in Golang, with proven experience designing and shipping high-concurrency, distributed systems.
• End-to-end delivery experience from business requirement to production, with the ability to challenge and shape requirements from a technical standpoint rather than simply taking orders.
• Experience managing distributed or remote teams, with a realistic understanding of the costs and limits of async collaboration.
• Able to work in Mandarin for technical discussion and management communication; professional reading and writing proficiency in English.
• Eligible to work in Singapore, or eligible for an Employment Pass.

Preferred

• Background in digital-asset trading systems.
• Experience with systems for derivatives, options, or structured products.
• Track record of building or restructuring teams during a period of rapid growth.
• An established personal practice of working alongside AI in daily engineering, and the ability to turn that practice into team-wide norms.

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