Senior Software Architect: Applications & Infrastructure Lead

Acheron Trading; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Revenue share bonus pool

Direct-hire, no recruiters

Job summary

Acheron Trading, a market-making firm, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead the core Applications vertical and support infrastructure governance under regulated frameworks. You will steer a lean team, implement UAT staging, code reviews, and CI/CD gates, and oversee 6–12 month migrations with a focus on resilience across cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities include leading client dashboards, admin tooling, and ledger systems, plus enforcing security and access governance while partnering

Qualifications

• 6+ years in software engineering with 2+ years in a leadership role.
• Proven track record guiding software engineering teams in high-velocity startup or scaling environments.
• Experience establishing engineering processes from scratch (UAT environments, mandatory PR reviews, release governance).

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and delivery of client dashboards, merchant portals, balance-tracking interfaces, and external API gateways.
• Oversee internal admin portals, automated trade reconciliation workflows, settlement tracking interfaces, and incident triage tools.
• Own the application logic for multi-asset ledgers, parallel accounting books, and payout pipelines.
• Enforce identity and access governance across all client and internal interfaces (OAuth/JWT, MFA, 4-eyes approvals).
• Deputize for Infrastructure: co-own platform architecture, observability, and DR protocols.
• Direct UAT/Staging environments, test data seeding, and mock API integrations to ensure zero unverified code touches production.
• Establish CI/CD gating and static analysis rules, with formal release discipline and production access controls.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Go (Golang)

Python

Rust

Distributed systems

API design

Cloud-native (AWS/GCP)

CI/CD

Code reviews

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

PostgreSQL

Redis

gRPC

Job description

Acheron Trading, a market-making firm, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead the core Applications vertical and support infrastructure governance under regulated frameworks. You will steer a lean team, implement UAT staging, code reviews, and CI/CD gates, and oversee 6–12 month migrations with a focus on resilience across cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities include leading client dashboards, admin tooling, and ledger systems, plus enforcing security and access governance while partnering