Staff Engineer

MATCHMOVE PAY PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

MatchMove Pay Pte. Ltd. in Singapore seeks a seasoned Backend Architect to lead the design of scalable Go-based distributed services handling high-throughput financial flows.

You will set architectural direction, mentor engineers, and champion reliability, security, and compliant delivery across multi-region platforms. You will prototype and profile Go services, improve observability, and drive AI-assisted engineering workflows while partnering with Product, Compliance, Risk, and Business teams

Qualifications

• 8–12 years backend engineering experience, with at least 5 years in Go in high-scale systems.
• Proven experience architecting and scaling financial systems (payments, ledgering).
• Strong Go concurrency, synchronization, and runtime tuning knowledge.
• Relational data design (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and event-driven patterns.
• Security, encryption, and compliance standards (PCI-DSS, MAS, ISO 27001).
• Observability and SRE practices (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana).
• Mentoring senior engineers and influencing tech direction at scale.
• Familiarity with IaC, Kubernetes, service mesh, API gateways.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the backend architecture roadmap across microservices and shared infra.
• Lead the engineering excellence charter with code quality, testing, CI/CD, and security hygiene.
• Mentor technical leads and senior engineers, enabling AI-assisted engineering workflows.
• Architect, prototype and profile Go-based distributed services for high-throughput financial flows.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Microservices

Engineering leadership

Backend architecture

Kubernetes

Observability

Tools

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Copilot

Job description

About us:

MatchMove is aprofitableSingapore-based fintech company and one of Asia’s leading Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) providers, enabling businesses to embed financial services directly into their digital ecosystems. Operating its proprietary, secure, and regulated Banking Wallet OS™ platform across Asia and beyond, MatchMove empowers enterprises to issue accounts, cards, payments, loans, and other financial products seamlessly within their own platforms.

The company is experiencingdouble-digit year-on-year growth and processes billions of transactions each year, underscoring its scale, resilience, and trust among partners and users. Recognized with multiple industry awards including theFrost & Sullivan’s 2025 Singapore Enabling Technology Leadership Recognition for Excellence in Embedded Finance Innovation. MatchMove has been celebrated for driving innovation across a wide range of embedded finance use cases.

By partnering with leading local banks and ecosystem players, MatchMove bridges the gap between traditional banking and modern digital commerce. Its mission is to deliver innovative, secure, and inclusive financial technology solutions that drive digital transformation for businesses while empowering millions of end users across the region.

With a strong commitment to innovation, regulatory excellence, and sustainable growth, MatchMove continues to pioneer new approaches to embedded finance, redefining how businesses and consumers access and interact with financial services in Asia and beyond.

Skills: #Golang #DistributedSystems #Microservices #Fintech #CloudNative #SoftwareArchitecture #EngineeringLeadership

Are You The One?

You are a seasoned technologist with a product mindset — equally comfortable designing a distributed ledger service or simplifying a compliance-driven API for partner integration. You understand that technical excellence is not just about code — it’s about systems that scale safely, teams that deliver predictably, and decisions that align with long-term product goals.

You will be atechnical north starfor multiple product and platform teams — defining architecture, aligning technical strategies with business outcomes, and mentoring technical leads and senior engineers to raise the engineering bar.

You Will Contribute To

Domain and Architectural Leadership

• Deeply understand core financial domains (card issuance, payments orchestration, remittance, ledger systems) and translate this knowledge into resilientbounded contexts, canonical data models, and API standards.
• Define and own the long-termbackend architecture roadmap, ensuring coherence across microservices and shared infrastructure.
• Championclean architecture and Domain-Driven Design (DDD)principles, owning complex cross-domain decisions (e.g., transaction reconciliation, settlement workflows).
• Serve as thearchitectural authorityin design reviews, incident postmortems, and roadmap discussions.

Engineering Excellence and Quality

• Lead theengineering excellence charter, establishing organization-wide guidelines for code quality, testing, CI/CD, and security hygiene.
• Define and continuously track keyengineering KPIs(e.g., Service SLAs, MTTR, Deployment Frequency) to quantify and improve outcomes.
• Mentor technical leads and senior engineers, raising the overall engineering bar and enablingGenerative AI-assisted engineering workflowsresponsibly.

Hands-on Technical Contribution

• Architect, prototype, and profileGo-based distributed servicesfor high-throughput, low-latency financial flows.
• Apply expert knowledge ofGo's concurrency, synchronization, and runtime tuningto design performant and scalable services.
• Lead postmortems, fault-injection sessions, and conduct deep-dive performance tuning using tools like $pprof$.

Stakeholder Collaboration and Influence

• Partner closely with Product, Compliance, Risk, and Business teams, translating functional requirements into resilient technical designs.
• Represent engineering trade-offs in executive forums and lead major cross-functional initiatives (e.g., multi-region rollout, PCI-DSS compliance).
• Maintaintechnical debt registersand remediation plans, acting as thetechnical conscienceto balance delivery pace with operational integrity, security, and auditability.

Required Experience and Qualifications

• 8–12 yearsof backend engineering experience, with at least5 years in Goin high-scale, distributed systems.
• Proven experience architecting and scaling financial systems(payments orchestration, card processing, or ledgering).
• Expert understanding of Go concurrency, synchronization, and runtime tuning.
• Strong grounding inrelational data design(PostgreSQL/MySQL) and event-driven patterns.
• Practical knowledge ofsecurity, encryption, and compliance standards(PCI-DSS, MAS, ISO 27001) in a regulated fintech environment.
• Experienced inobservability and SRE practices(Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana) and capacity planning.
• Demonstrated ability tomentor senior engineersand influence technical direction at scale, including articulating complex issues to all organizational levels.
• Familiarity with IaC, Kubernetes, service mesh, and API gateways.
• Experience with AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g., Copilot, CodeWhisperer) is a plus.

MatchMove Culture:

• We cultivate a dynamic and innovative culture that fuels growth, creativity, and collaboration. Our fast-paced fintech environment thrives on adaptability, agility, and open communication.
• We are AI-first in our approach.We embrace AI as a strategic tool that enhances decision-making, creativity, and productivity. Every team member is equipped and encouraged to integrate AI into their workflow, experiment with new tools, and contribute to our collective AI literacy.
• We focus on employee development, supporting continuous learning and growth through training programs, learning on the job and mentorship.
• We encourage speaking up, sharing ideas, and taking ownership. Embracing diversity, our team spans across Asia, fostering a rich exchange of perspectives and experiences.
• Together, we harness the power of fintech and e-commerce to impact people's lives meaningfully.
• Grow with us and shape the future of fintech. Join us and be part of something bigger!

Personal Data Protection Act:

- collect and use your personal data, and to disclose such data to any third party with whom MatchMove or any of its related corporations have service arrangements, in each case for all purposes in connection with your job application, and employment with MatchMove; and - retain your personal data for one year for consideration of future job opportunities (where applicable).