Senior Backend Developer

UBS; Singapore; On-site; SGD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial services firm in Singapore is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build next generation trading applications. Ideal candidates will have over 10 years of experience and expertise in Java or Kotlin, as well as knowledge of CI/CD processes. You will play a key role in enhancing application architecture, ensuring code quality, and developing engineering talent within the team, all while working in a challenging and growth-oriented environment.

Qualifications

• More than 10 years of experience in a similar role.
• Experience leading and mentoring senior engineers.
• Ability to design solutions in a large-scale enterprise environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide technology solutions to solve business problems.
• Design and deliver sustainable solutions using modern programming languages.
• Conduct code reviews and participate in application architecture.

Skills

Backend technologies (Java or Kotlin)

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

Kubernetes

Gitlab

Job description

Your role:

Do you want to design and build next generation trading applications using the latest technologies? Are you confident at iteratively refining user requirements and removing any ambiguity? Do you like to be challenged and encouraged to learn and grow professionally?

We’re looking for back end engineers to:

• provide technology solutions that will solve business problems and strengthen our position as digital leaders in financial services


• design, plan and deliver sustainable solutions using modern programming languages and tooling


• provide technical expertise and recommendations in assessing new software projects and initiatives to support and enhance our existing applications


• conduct code reviews and test software as needed, along with participating in application architecture and design and other phases of SDLC

Your team:

You’ll be working in the Wealth Management Trade and Transfer Assets stream, as part of the Technology division in Hong Kong or Singapore. You will be joining a team that prides itself on care for its users and their experience, providing next generation trading tools covering multiple asset classes across international locations.

This is a senior engineering appointment, and as such you’ll play an important role in improving the architecture of our applications, development of tooling, pipelines and development workflow, and reinforcement of coding quality.

Your expertise:

• with more than 10 years of working in similar role, extensive experience focused on building and testing complex applications


• experience leading and mentoring other senior engineers, defining software architecture, and supporting teams to execute complex goals with exceptional quality and agility


• expert level knowledge in backend technologies (including Java or Kotlin)


• expertise in CI/CD pipelines, tooling and deployment (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes and Gitlab)


• ability to design, plan and deliver solutions in a large-scale enterprise environment that adhere to security, compliance, reliability and operational standards


• ability to line manage other engineers, develop their skills and nurture their careers, growing the next generation of software engineers for the bank