Lead Platform Architect (Fintech & Payments)

liberty pte. limited; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Liberty PTE. LIMITED in Singapore leading an engineering team to build scalable, maintainable products with a focus on Singapore/Hong Kong markets. The Lead engineer works across business units to drive architecture choices, orchestrate features, and mentor engineers while delivering high‑quality software.

You will partner with Product, QA, and DevOps, implement AI‑assisted development practices, and ensure security, observability, and performance across distributed systems.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with 2–4+ years in a technical lead or senior role.
• Strong backend and frontend development experience with modern frameworks.
• Proven system design skills for scalable, distributed architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and architecture discussions; own technical decisions and trade-offs.
• Collaborate with Regional Architecture to define target state for Market tech landscape.
• Integrate with finance systems, payment gateways, banks, fintech partners, and vendors.
• Hands-on coding; unblock the team and deliver critical components.
• Mentor engineers; conduct 1:1s and support career development and hiring.
• Plan work; estimate effort; prioritize tasks; drive sprint execution and releases.
• Ensure quality: testing strategies, observability, and monitoring.
• Drive CI/CD, automated testing, and deployment pipelines.
• Collaborate with Product/QA/DevOps to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Manage technical debt and enforce security, compliance and performance best practices.
• Track engineering metrics and act on them.

Skills

Software engineering

System design

Backend development

Frontend development

Java

Spring Boot

React/Angular

AWS

CI/CD

Docker

GitHub Actions

Terraform/CloudFormation

SQL/NoSQL

Observability/Monitoring

Vendor management

Tools

Docker

GitHub Copilot

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

AWS

Job description

Liberty PTE. LIMITED in Singapore leading an engineering team to build scalable, maintainable products with a focus on Singapore/Hong Kong markets. The Lead engineer works across business units to drive architecture choices, orchestrate features, and mentor engineers while delivering high‑quality software.

You will partner with Product, QA, and DevOps, implement AI‑assisted development practices, and ensure security, observability, and performance across distributed systems.