Lead Engineer, Wealth Management Platform — Remote

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

Job summary

KIRA is seeking a Lead Engineer to take technical ownership of complex products and systems. This role blends architecture with hands-on coding, guiding engineers and driving major initiatives from idea to production.

You will design scalable systems, review code, mentor teammates and make trade-offs to balance speed, reliability and maintainability. This remote, globally distributed role emphasizes collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with production systems experience.
• Deep technical expertise in backend, frontend, distributed systems, APIs, databases or cloud infrastructure.
• Strong system design and architecture skills with experience making technical decisions for complex or high-scale systems.
• Strong coding ability and willingness to remain hands-on.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and execution of major products, features and engineering initiatives.
• Design scalable, reliable and maintainable systems across backend, frontend, APIs, databases and infrastructure.
• Stay hands-on with engineering through coding, prototyping, code reviews, debugging and production problem-solving.
• Make architecture decisions and technical trade-offs that balance speed, scalability, reliability and maintainability.
• Break ambiguous product and technical problems into clear engineering solutions and execution plans.
• Set a high bar for code quality, system design, testing, security, observability and production reliability.
• Review technical designs and code from other engineers and provide clear, actionable feedback.
• Mentor engineers and help strengthen technical capability across the team.
• Identify technical risks, bottlenecks and architectural weaknesses before they become larger problems.
• Work closely with engineering, product, design and AI teams to ship high-quality products quickly.
• Improve engineering tooling, development practices and automation to increase team velocity.
• Own systems beyond release — monitor production, investigate incidents, resolve root causes and continuously improve reliability.

Skills

Software engineering

System design

Code review

Mentoring

Production systems

Distributed systems

Tools

AWS

Databases

Job description

KIRA is seeking a Lead Engineer to take technical ownership of complex products and systems. This role blends architecture with hands-on coding, guiding engineers and driving major initiatives from idea to production.

You will design scalable systems, review code, mentor teammates and make trade-offs to balance speed, reliability and maintainability. This remote, globally distributed role emphasizes collaboration across teams.