Senior Backend Engineering Lead for Scale & Architecture

Trulyyy; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Trulyyy is seeking a senior engineering leader to guide a core backend function within a fast-growing financial services company. Reporting to the CTO, you will shape the team, roadmap, and architecture while staying hands-on when required.

You will build and mentor a multi-location team, drive architectural decisions, and collaborate with product, operations, and control functions to deliver scalable technical solutions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend software engineering experience, with leadership
• Strong hands-on experience in Golang, C++, or Java
• Experience designing and operating large-scale backend or distributed systems
• Relational databases, especially MySQL, including transactions and performance
• Comfortable with reliability, observability, and maintainability of complex production systems
• Able to lead as both technical leader and people manager

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a multi-location backend engineering team supporting core financial products and platforms
• Define the technical roadmap, engineering priorities, and development standards for the function
• Partner with product, business, operations, and control functions to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Provide architectural guidance on complex backend systems, focusing on scale and reliability
• Drive execution on short-term priorities and long-term platform improvements
• Improve engineering effectiveness through better development practices, tooling, and AI-assisted workflows
• Own people-management responsibilities: hiring, performance reviews, team development, resource planning
• Coordinate with other engineering teams and senior stakeholders across regions

Skills

Backend leadership

Golang

Java

C++

Distributed systems

Leadership

Team building

Education

8+ years backend software engineering

3+ years in engineering management

Tools

MySQL

Job description

Trulyyy is seeking a senior engineering leader to guide a core backend function within a fast-growing financial services company. Reporting to the CTO, you will shape the team, roadmap, and architecture while staying hands-on when required.

You will build and mentor a multi-location team, drive architectural decisions, and collaborate with product, operations, and control functions to deliver scalable technical solutions.