Go Backend Engineering Lead for Compliance & Risk

SOLANA FOUNDATION; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive salary

Job summary

KAST is seeking a hands-on Engineering Lead to build and scale our Compliance & Risk Platform in Singapore. This backend-focused role leads architecture across KYC/KYB, monitoring, sanctions screening, and internal tooling, partnering with Compliance, Product, Operations and Engineering to deliver scalable systems that meet global regulatory requirements.

You will guide design, own services and APIs in Go, mentor engineers, and help grow the team as we expand fintech infrastructure in a hybrid

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong backend engineering expertise, particularly with Go.
• Experience building production-grade APIs and distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of system reliability, security, and auditability.
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with compliance and operational stakeholders.
• Startup mindset with strong ownership and execution ability.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and modern engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of backend systems powering compliance and risk products.
• Build scalable services and APIs primarily using Go.
• Own technical architecture for onboarding, monitoring, restrictions, and internal tooling.
• Partner with Compliance, Risk, AML Ops, and Product teams to translate regulatory requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Design reliable, auditable, and secure systems with strong observability and operational workflows.
• Improve automation and operational efficiency across compliance processes.
• Mentor engineers and establish backend standards and backend best practices.
• Participate in hiring and help scale the engineering team.

Skills

Go

Backend development

APIs

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Leadership

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

PostgreSQL

Redis

CI/CD

Job description

KAST is seeking a hands-on Engineering Lead to build and scale our Compliance & Risk Platform in Singapore. This backend-focused role leads architecture across KYC/KYB, monitoring, sanctions screening, and internal tooling, partnering with Compliance, Product, Operations and Engineering to deliver scalable systems that meet global regulatory requirements.

You will guide design, own services and APIs in Go, mentor engineers, and help grow the team as we expand fintech infrastructure in a hybrid