Senior Full Stack Engineer, Group Operations & Technology (AVP)

OCBC (Singapore); Singapore; On-site; SGD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Holistic benefits

Learning & development opportunities

Job summary

OCBC Singapore is seeking a Senior Full-stack Lead Engineer to drive development of scalable banking applications from concept to deployment. You will lead a cross‑functional team and shape product integration across critical financial services.

You will collaborate with engineering, architecture, and product teams to deliver robust, secure solutions using Java, Spring, and microservices. A strong focus on payment systems and multi-region platforms is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in Java 21, Spring Boot, Spring Batch and Micro frontends is required.
• Strong background in microservices, event streaming and multi-region systems.
• Knowledge of ISO 20022, digital payments, and payment gateways is preferred.
• Hands-on with IBM MQ, Kafka, Redis and MongoDB.

Responsibilities

• Serve as technology SME for delivering large enterprise projects in banking/payments.
• Lead architecture, SRE, DevOps and AIOps practices.
• Design, develop and integrate scalable microservices and data pipelines.

Skills

Java 21

Spring Boot

Spring Batch

Micro frontends

Microservices

Kafka

Redis

MongoDB

IBM MQ

Spring Cloud

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Java 21

Spring Boot

Spring Batch

Micro frontends

Microservices

IBM MQ

Kafka

Redis

MongoDB

Spring Cloud

Job description

WHO WE ARE:

As Singapore's longest established bank, we have been dedicated to enabling individuals and businesses to achieve their aspirations since 1932. How? By taking the time to truly understand people. From there, we provide support, services, solutions, and career paths that meet their individual needs and desires.

Today, we're on a journey of transformation. Leveraging technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organisation. But for all that change, our strategic ambition is consistently clear and bold, which is to be Asia's leading financial services partner for a sustainable future.

We invite you to build the bank of the future. Innovate the way we deliver financial services. Work in friendly, supportive teams. Build lasting value in your community. Help people grow their assets, business, and investments. Take your learning as far as you can. Or simply enjoy a vibrant, future-ready career.

Your Opportunity Starts Here.

Why Join

As an Full Stack Engineer in OCBC, you will be part of a team, building applications that work at scale to support various banking products, services, and also enable development workflows. We are looking for a Senior Full-stack Lead developer who will be part of every stage of development, from concept to deployment. If you're passionate about the fintech, want to be part of a group that works on new products, have the opportunity to shape them, and enjoy crafting robust, scalable, and maintainable services, we may be the team for you!

How you succeed

To succeed in this role, you'll need to be passionate about software development and committed to delivering high-quality solutions. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements, design and develop software applications, and ensure seamless integration with existing systems. Your ability to collaborate, innovate, and adapt to changing requirements will be key to your success.

What you do

• Serve as a technology subject matter expert in delivering large enterprise projects.
  
• Expertise in architecture, discipline and practices about SRE, DevOps, AIOps
  
• Ensure that all integration of functions meet business goals
  
• Demonstrable payment processing and clearing knowledge especially data mapping and modelling to support triaging issues raised in development and production
  
• Define necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process enhancements
  
• Recommend product customization for system integration
  
• Identify problem causality, business impact and root causes
  
• Experience in building product from ground up, have exposer how the end to end works from ideation, design to final build of a product.
  
• Strong understanding of Payment Processing in banking domain
  
• Good understand and working experience in Microservices (Any tech stack)
  
• Understanding of architecture like physical, logical, solution architectures etc.
  
• Deliver solutions that can keep up with a rapidly evolving product in a timely fashion
  

Who you are

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  
• Strong experience of modern architectures such as microservices, event streaming, and multi-region systems, supported by solid knowledge of industry-recognised frameworks and tooling
  
• Strong understanding of payment systems, processing, and industry trends (e.g., ISO 20022, digital payments, payment gateways).
  
• Familiar with Payments messaging standards such as ISO 20022, SWIFT
  
• 10 years of relevant experience in an Engineering Lead role
  
• Experience in leading teams
  
• Must have experience in building platforms in Microservices
  
• Participate in technical design discussions, architecture reviews
  
• Develop high-quality with Java 21, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Micro frontends
  
• Implement Spring ecosystem features such as Spring Data JPA, Spring Security, Spring Cloud, etc.
  
• Experience in working with IBM MQ, Kafka, Redis and Mongo DB
  
• Apply design patterns and guiding principles in daily development.
  
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
  
• Demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
  
• Comprehensive knowledge of design metrics, analytics tools, benchmarking activities and related reporting to identify best practices
  
• Demonstrated analytic/diagnostic skills
  
• Ability to work in a matrix environment.
  
• Ability to work independently, multi-task, and take ownership of various parts of a project or initiative
  
• Keen interest in learning new technology.
  

Who we are

As Singapore's longest established bank, we have been dedicated to enabling individuals and businesses to achieve their aspirations since 1932. How? By taking the time to truly understand people. From there, we provide support, services, solutions, and career paths that meet their individual needs and desires.

Today, we're on a journey of transformation. Leveraging technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organisation.
But for all that change, our strategic ambition is consistently clear and bold, which is to be Asia's leading financial services partner for a sustainable future.

We invite you to build the bank of the future. Innovate the way we deliver financial services. Work in friendly, supportive teams. Build lasting value in your community. Help people grow their assets, business, and investments. Take your learning as far as you can. Or simply enjoy a vibrant, future-ready career. Your Opportunity Starts Here.

What we offer:

Competitive base salary. A suite of holistic, flexible benefits to suit every lifestyle. Community initiatives. Industry-leading learning and professional development opportunities. Your wellbeing, growth and aspirations are every bit as cared for as the needs of our customers.