Manager/Assistant Manager (Technical Lead), Product System

Liberty Specialty Markets; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Liberty Specialty Markets is seeking a Manager/Assistant Manager (Technical Lead) for their Product System department in Singapore. This role involves leading engineering teams to develop scalable products, ensuring integration with diverse partners, and mentoring engineers. A strong background in software engineering and proven systems design is essential.

The successful candidate will collaborate with various stakeholders, drive CI/CD efforts, and ensure security and compliance standards are met throughout the product lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with 2–4+ years in a technical lead or senior engineering role.
• Strong programming experience in at least one backend/front-end language.
• Proven system design skills for building scalable, distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and architecture discussions for new features.
• Collaborate with the Regional Architecture team for target state definition.
• Manage integration with finance systems and third-party vendors.
• Mentor and grow engineers through feedback and career support.
• Ensure quality and reliability through code reviews and testing strategies.

Skills

Software engineering

Backend programming (Java 8, Spring Boot)

Frontend experience (Angular, React)

System design for distributed systems

Cloud platforms (AWS)

CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)

GitHub Copilot

Problem-solving and debugging

Tools

Docker

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Role Title: Manager/Assistant Manager (Technical Lead), Product System

Department: Technology

Type: Permanent

Job Summary

Acting as a Lead in the engineering team to drive a scalable, maintainable products and improve engineering practices. Especially with Singapore/Hong Kong-focused projects, working closely with different business units and driving the technical and architecture design to achieve the Company’s goals. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead design and architecture discussions for new features and platform improvements; own technical decisions and trade-offs.
• Work closely with the Regional Architecture team to define and document the target state / North star for the Market tech landscape.
• Manage integration with finance systems, payment gateways, processors, banks, fintech partners, and third-party vendors.
• Write and review code, implement critical components, and unblock the team through hands-on contributions.
• Mentor and grow engineers: provide feedback, conduct 1:1s, support career development and hiring.
• Plan and deliver work: break down requirements, estimate effort, prioritize tasks, drive sprint execution and releases.
• Ensure quality and reliability: Leverage AI assisted coding to drive productivity, enforce code reviews, testing strategy (unit/integration/e2e), observability and monitoring.
• Drive CI/CD, automated testing and deployment pipelines; improve development productivity and reduce lead time.
• Collaborate with Product, QA, DevOps and Stakeholders to define requirements into technical solutions, acceptance criteria and delivery timelines.
• Manage technical debt: identify, prioritize and drive remediation work alongside feature delivery.
• Ensure security, compliance and performance, best practices are followed- Embed shift-left security model, threat modeling into design reviews earlier in SDLC.
• Track and report engineering metrics (velocity, cycle time, defect rate, availability) and act on them.

Job Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with 2–4+ years in a technical lead or senior engineering role.
• Strong programming experience in at least one backend/front-end language (Java 8 and latest version, Spring boot, Spring MVC, Angular, React)
• Proven system design skills for building scalable, distributed systems (microservices, event-driven architectures).
• Experience in insurance, banking or fintech services.
• Familiarity with payment compliance, security, and regulatory requirements.
• AI-Assisted Development, testing & Debugging: Experience using GitHub Copilot Agent mode for rapid prototyping, debugging, autonomously correct code issues and iterative development.
• Practical experience with cloud platforms (AWS) and containerization (Docker).
• Experience with CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Solid understanding of databases (SQL and NoSQL), caching, and messaging systems.
• Familiarity with testing strategies, automated test frameworks and observability tools (logs, metrics, tracing).
• Strong problem-solving, debugging and performance tuning skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication; comfortable working with cross-functional stakeholders.