Manager/Assistant Manager (Technical Lead), Product System

Liberty Specialty Markets Singapore Pte Limited; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Liberty Specialty Markets Singapore Pte Limited seeks an experienced Manager/Assistant Manager (Technical Lead), Product System to lead design and architecture for scalable platforms, focusing on Singapore and Hong Kong projects. You will partner with cross-functional teams across technology, finance and business units to drive technical design and delivery.

You will mentor engineers, own critical components, and contribute hands-on coding while accelerating CI/CD, testing, security and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering with 2-4+ years in a technical lead or senior role.
• Strong programming in Java 8+ and modern frontend frameworks (Angular/React).
• Proven design of scalable distributed systems (microservices, event-driven).
• Experience in insurance, banking or fintech services.
• Knowledge of payment compliance, security, and regulations.
• AI-assisted development and debugging with GitHub Copilot Agent mode.
• Cloud (AWS) and containerization (Docker).
• CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• SQL/NoSQL databases, caching and messaging systems.
• Testing strategies, frameworks and observability tools.
• Strong problem-solving, debugging and performance tuning.
• Excellent communication; ability to work with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Vendor management experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and architecture discussions; own technical decisions and trade-offs.
• Collaborate with Regional Architecture to define the target state for Market tech.
• Manage integration with finance systems, payment gateways, banks and fintech partners.
• Write and review code; contribute hands-on to unblock the team.
• Mentor engineers; provide feedback and support career development.
• Plan and deliver work; estimate effort and drive sprints/releases.
• Ensure quality; enforce reviews, testing strategy, CI/CD, observability.
• Drive CI/CD, automated testing and deployment pipelines.
• Collaborate with Product, QA, DevOps and stakeholders to translate requirements.
• Manage technical debt and remediation alongside feature delivery.
• Ensure security, compliance and performance; embed shift-left security.
• Track metrics (velocity, cycle time, defects) and act on insights.

Skills

7+ years software engineering

Technical lead

Java 8+

Spring Boot

Spring MVC

Angular

React

Microservices

Event-driven architectures

AWS

Docker

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Terraform

CloudFormation

SQL/NoSQL

Observability

Vendor management

Tools

AWS

Docker

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Terraform

CloudFormation

SQL

NoSQL

Job description

General information

Country: Singapore

Creation Date: 29-Jun-2026

Employment Type: Permanent

Employment Type: Full time

Ref #: 1234573096

Description & Requirements

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

Department : Technology

Location : Singapore

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.
• Experience in vendor management.