Senior Software Engineer (Front Office)

Eames Consulting; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Eames Consulting partnered role in Singapore seeks a Senior Software Engineer for Front Office systems. You will lead a high-performing squad, shaping architecture for a real-time trading platform while balancing hands-on technical work with team leadership.

Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, collaborating with product owners and global tech leads, and driving CI, testing, and release processes to ensure low-latency performance for global market operations.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of software development experience.
• Deep Capital Markets, Investment Banking, or Electronic Trading exposure.
• Hands-on in high-throughput, event-driven designs using Kafka and distributed datastores.
• Strong RESTful APIs and WebSocket knowledge.
• Proven experience leading agile engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Guide technical direction and architecture for a core execution platform.
• Lead a high-performance development squad and mentor engineers.
• Collaborate with product owners, quants, and tech leads to translate business needs.
• Oversee end-to-end feature delivery with CI, testing, and release practices.
• Drive low-latency data processing and real-time web application optimizations.

Skills

Frontend frameworks

Backend environments

Capital markets

Investment banking

Electronic trading

Kafka

RESTful APIs

WebSockets

Agile leadership

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

We are partnered with an established financial institution to look for a Senior Software Engineer for Front Office systems. This is a permanent role based in Singapore.

In this role, you will lead a high performing development squad responsible for enhancing and scaling a core, real time trading platform. You will balance hands on technical architecture with team leadership, driving the execution of mission critical features for global market operations.

Responsibilities

• Guide the technical direction and architectural design for a core execution platform, ensuring high performance and system resilience.
• Lead a team of talented software engineers, offering technical mentorship, conducting code reviews, and unblocking daily development challenges.
• Partner closely with product owners, quantitative analysts, and global technology leads to translate complex business needs into scalable technical solutions.
• Oversee end to end feature delivery, driving best practices in continuous integration, automated testing, and release management.
• Identify and execute performance optimization strategies for low latency data processing and real time web applications.

Key Requirements

• At least 10 years of software development experience, with deep expertise across modern frontend frameworks and robust backend environments.
• Strong background in Capital Markets, Investment Banking, or Electronic Trading, with exposure to derivative products.
• Hands on experience designing high throughput, event driven platforms using tools like message queues (e.g., Kafka) and distributed datastores.
• Solid grasp of streaming protocols, RESTful APIs, and WebSockets for real time data delivery.
• Proven experience leading agile engineering teams, driving technical roadmaps, and establishing solid engineering practices.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.