Tech Lead - Java Microservices in Banking

FPT Asia Pacific Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

FPT Asia Pacific Pte Ltd is seeking an experienced Tech Lead (Java) to steer the design and delivery of high‑performance, secure banking applications in Singapore. You will lead agile teams, mentor developers, and collaborate with Product, Architecture, Security, and Operations on mission‑critical systems.

The role focuses on Java/JVM, microservices, APIs, event‑driven patterns, and strong emphasis on security and compliance in regulated banking environments.

Qualifications

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Responsibilities

• Lead end‑to‑end technical design for Java microservices and APIs, ensuring alignment with architecture and security standards.
• Define and implement non‑functional requirements including performance, scalability, resilience, observability, and security.
• Review and create technical designs (HLD/LLD), ensure clean architecture and DDD principles.
• Develop high‑quality code using Java 11/17, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and guide coding standards, code reviews, and secure‑by‑design practices.
• Optimize application performance including JVM tuning, connection management, and thread optimization.
• Design and build integrations with core banking and financial systems using APIs, messaging, and event‑driven patterns (Kafka/RabbitMQ).
• Collaborate with data teams on models, lineage, masking, and compliance requirements.
• Design and implement data ingestion, transformation, and ETL/ELT pipelines across on‑prem and cloud data platforms.
• Partner with Data Engineering teams to design data models, schema evolution, lineage, masking, quality checks, and compliance workflows.
• Work with DevOps to enable CI/CD, automated testing, and modern deployment patterns (blue‑green, canary).
• Implement observability solutions including logging, tracing, metrics, SLIs/SLOs, and dashboards.
• Ensure strong security and compliance aligned with banking standards (OAuth2/OIDC, TLS, MAS TRM, PCI‑DSS, GDPR).
• Lead engineering teams (onshore/offshore), manage delivery plans, risks, and align with product roadmaps.
• Provide reliable estimates, delivery timelines, and stakeholder updates throughout the SDLC.
• Establish shift‑left testing, TDD/BDD, contract tests, and test data strategies.
• Ensure robust UAT readiness, release documentation, and production runbooks.
• Drive root cause analysis (RCA), post‑incident reviews, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Java 11+/17+

Spring Boot

Spring Cloud

Microservices

API Design

Kafka/RabbitMQ

Docker/Kubernetes

Security: OAuth2/OIDC

DDD/Architecture

Observability

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Jenkins/GitLab/Azure DevOps

Maven/Gradle

OpenTelemetry

SQL/NoSQL databases

Job description

FPT Asia Pacific Pte Ltd is seeking an experienced Tech Lead (Java) to steer the design and delivery of high‑performance, secure banking applications in Singapore. You will lead agile teams, mentor developers, and collaborate with Product, Architecture, Security, and Operations on mission‑critical systems.

The role focuses on Java/JVM, microservices, APIs, event‑driven patterns, and strong emphasis on security and compliance in regulated banking environments.