Senior Backend Lead - Cloud-Native Golang (Real-Time)

NEWBRIDGE ALLIANCE PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NEWBRIDGE ALLIANCE PTE. LTD. is seeking a hands-on Backend Technical Lead to own the backend vision for a next-generation, real-time platform. You will anchor architecture, end-to-end delivery, and production reliability for a cloud-native system at scale.

You will collaborate with Product, Engineering and Infrastructure to drive high-availability, performance, and secure systems, mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives across teams.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Golang production-grade systems experience
• REST APIs design and complex system integrations
• Strong SQL skills with PostgreSQL or similar
• Experience with Kafka and real-time protocols like WebSockets/MQTT
• Cloud-native stacks (AWS/Azure); Docker and Kubernetes
• Observability/monitoring tools like Datadog or Sentry
• Mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve backend architecture, system design, and technical roadmap for a distributed, high-traffic platform
• Own end-to-end delivery of backend services from design to production ownership
• Build for high availability, performance, and security
• Champion engineering best practices through design reviews and code quality
• Architect and scale event-driven workflows for real-time operations
• Drive database performance, indexing strategy and cost optimization
• Lead production troubleshooting, incident management and root cause analysis
• Partner with DevOps to strengthen CI/CD, observability, monitoring, and reliability
• Mentor engineers and lead technical initiatives across teams

Skills

Golang

Java exposure

Concurrency & performance

REST APIs design

SQL (PostgreSQL)

Kafka

WebSockets/MQTT

Cloud-native stacks (AWS/Azure)

Docker & Kubernetes

IaC (Terraform)

Observability tools (Datadog, Sentry)

Production debugging in scale

Leadership / mentoring

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

NEWBRIDGE ALLIANCE PTE. LTD. is seeking a hands-on Backend Technical Lead to own the backend vision for a next-generation, real-time platform. You will anchor architecture, end-to-end delivery, and production reliability for a cloud-native system at scale.

You will collaborate with Product, Engineering and Infrastructure to drive high-availability, performance, and secure systems, mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives across teams.