Senior Product Architect ( Engineer + Product + Architecture)

TymeX; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology innovator in Singapore is seeking a Product Architect to drive technical architecture and business value. This mid-senior level role emphasizes collaborative solutions and cost-effective design in software engineering. Candidates should have extensive experience in backend systems, cloud architectures, and collaboration across multiple teams. The position comes with robust benefits, including health insurance and performance bonuses, while promoting work-life balance in an agile culture.

Benefits

Meal and parking allowance

Performance bonus

Premium health care

Overseas training opportunities

Internal hackathons and events

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering, especially backend.
• Experience designing complex distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with failure scenarios.
• Cloud-native architecture experience.
• Knowledge in DevSecOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product Owners for customer solutions.
• Design user-centered systems.
• Lead the architecture to be scalable and resilient.
• Build lean systems for price-sensitive markets.
• Empower teams to make effective decisions.

Skills

Backend systems design

Cloud architectures

Database management

CI/CD and DevSecOps

Cross-functional collaboration

Cost optimization

Tools

AWS

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Job description

About the Role

We’re looking for an exceptional Product Architect to own and shape our TymeX architecture. This isn't an ivory tower architecture role where you create perfect designs in isolation. You'll be in action with product and engineering teams, making pragmatic technology decisions that balance speed, cost, and quality.

This role demands someone who can think like a business owner and build like an engineer—someone who obsesses over simplicity, cost efficiency, and customer/business value. You'll challenge expensive vendor solutions, advocate for building vs. buying when it makes sense, and constantly ask “is there a simpler, cheaper way to solve this?”. You'll live with your decisions through code reviews, incident responses, and operational feedback loops—ensuring your architectures aren’t just elegant on paper but resilient in production.

Note: Expat candidates will need to relocate to Ho Chi Minh City.

What You’ll Do

Drive Product & Business Value

• Partner with Product Owners and Engineering to challenge requirements and solve real customer problems.
• Design with customer empathy—slow approvals lose customers, confusing flows increase defaults.
• Prioritize ruthlessly based on impact—simple solutions that ship fast beat “perfect” architectures that take months.
• Build lean, cost‑efficient systems for price‑sensitive markets.

Lead Technical Architecture

• Champion simplicity—build systems any engineer can understand, question assumptions and push for simpler, faster, cheaper solutions.
• Design secure, resilient, scalable architectures that handle peak loads and graceful failures.
• Bridge technology‑business gaps by translating complex concepts into clear business language.

Enable & Grow Teams

• Empower teams to make decisions—coach, don't command.
• Stay on the ground through code reviews to validate architectural assumptions.
• Pair with engineers during complex implementations and production incidents.
• Participate in post‑mortems and operational reviews—own and improve when designs cause issues.
• Mentor engineers to think architecturally and delegate decisions as teams mature.
• Foster psychological safety where teams challenge ideas and admit mistakes freely.

Continuously Learn & Improve

• Stay ahead of evolving technologies, industry best practices, and competitive landscapes.
• Question assumptions relentlessly—“We’ve always done it this way” is not a reason.
• Be intellectually honest: “This design is complex because I don’t fully understand the problem yet.”

Requirements

Engineering Foundation

• 8+ years in software engineering, especially backend systems.
• Designed complex, distributed systems balancing consistency & availability.
• Handled failure scenarios: network partitions, service outages, database failures—designed for graceful degradation.
• Cloud‑native experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP; build cost‑efficient cloud architectures.
• Databases & data modeling: relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL.
• DevSecOps: CI/CD, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes/ECS), IaC, monitoring/observability, secure coding.

Product & Leadership

• Product thinking: track record of technology decisions that drive business outcomes.
• Customer empathy: articulated impact of technical decisions on borrowers.
• Cost‑conscious engineering: optimized for cost, building vs buying, batching, caching.
• Simplicity advocate: delivered simple, elegant solutions for complex problems.
• Team enablement: coached and mentored engineers.
• Cross‑functional collaboration: worked with Product, Credit Risk, Collections, Finance, Compliance, Operations.

Nice to Have

• AI/LLM engineering experience.
• Understanding of financial concepts.
• Java, Kotlin, Python programming.
• Spring ecosystem.
• AWS services: ECS/EKS, Fargate, Aurora, DynamoDB, Lambda, etc.

Our Engineering Principles

• ✅ Simplicity over complexity.
• ✅ Lean over lavish.
• ✅ Pragmatism over perfection.
• ✅ Outcomes over outputs.
• ✅ Enablement over heroics.
• ✅ Learning over knowing.
• ✅ Empathy over ego.

Benefits

• Meal and parking allowance are covered.
• Full benefits and salary rank during probation.
• Insurances as per Vietnamese labor law and premium health care for you and your family.
• Performance bonus up to 2 months.
• 13th month salary pro‑rata.
• 15‑day annual leave + 3‑day sick leave + 1 birthday leave + 1 Christmas leave.
• SMART goals and clear career opportunities.
• Values‑driven, international working environment, and agile culture.
• Overseas travel opportunities for training and work.
• Internal hackathons and company events.
• Work‑life balance: 40‑hr/week Mon‑Fri.

Seniority Level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type

Full‑time

Job Function

Other

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting