Lead Engineer: High-Throughput Trade Processing Platform

Balyasny Asset Management; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Balyasny Asset Management in Singapore is seeking a Lead Engineer for the Singapore Trade Processing team to own the design, architecture and delivery of post-trade platforms.

This is a hands-on leadership role focusing on production software, mentoring engineers and guiding delivery across a small team in collaboration with global Operations Technology.

You will shape the technical roadmap, work with distributed systems, and ensure reliability, scalability and rapid product onboarding.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in investment management, trading or financial-services tech environments.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering, including technical leadership and ownership of complex production systems.
• 10+ years of programming in Rust, C#/.NET, Java or Python, with experience building concurrent, high-performance software.
• 10+ years of experience designing and building scalable, event-driven distributed systems using Kafka, Kinesis, Solace or RabbitMQ.
• Experience using AI coding assistants or agentic development tools to support software delivery, with validation of outputs.
• 10+ years of experience with modern software delivery practices (Git, CI/CD, automated testing).
• At least 3 years guiding technical decisions and leading engineers while remaining hands-on.
• Strong ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions for diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and delivery of high-throughput, distributed trade-processing systems, ensuring reliability and scalability.
• Spend the majority of time on hands-on engineering including design, coding, code review and delivery of production software.
• Lead end-to-end trade lifecycle capabilities (capture, allocation, settlement, reconciliation) and related events.
• Onboard new products onto the platform with engineers and business stakeholders.
• Guide technical decisions and mentor engineers to support delivery.
• Translate business needs into practical technical solutions with global teams.
• Shape the technical roadmap balancing near-term priorities with resilience and maintainability.

Skills

Rust

C#/.NET

Java

Python

Kafka

Kinesis

Solace

RabbitMQ

Git

Jenkins

Octopus Deploy

Tools

React/Angular

Job description

Balyasny Asset Management in Singapore is seeking a Lead Engineer for the Singapore Trade Processing team to own the design, architecture and delivery of post-trade platforms.

This is a hands-on leadership role focusing on production software, mentoring engineers and guiding delivery across a small team in collaboration with global Operations Technology.

You will shape the technical roadmap, work with distributed systems, and ensure reliability, scalability and rapid product onboarding.