Backend Technical Lead

Our client is a large established Singapore-headquartered group with a strong consumer and enterprise footprint. They are investing heavily in building a next-generation large-scale connected platform that powers thousands of real-time device-integrated transactions daily.

They are looking for a hands-on Backend Technical Lead to own the backend vision and engineering excellence for this fast-scaling platform. This is a high-impact player-coach role at the intersection of software IoT and real-time systems.

The Role
You will be the technical anchor for the backend - driving architecture end-to-end delivery and operational maturity of a mission-critical cloud-native platform. You will partner closely with Product Engineering and Infrastructure teams to build resilient high-performance systems at scale.

What You Will Own & Drive

• Define and evolve backend architecture system design and technical roadmap for a distributed high-traffic platform
• Own end-to-end delivery of backend services - from design to deployment to production ownership
• Build for high availability performance and security
• Champion engineering best practices through design reviews code quality and pragmatic build-vs-scale decisions
• Architect and scale event-driven and asynchronous workflows for real-time operations
• Drive database performance indexing strategy and cost optimization
• Lead production troubleshooting incident management and root cause analysis
• Partner with DevOps to strengthen CI/CD observability monitoring and reliability
• Mentor engineers and lead technical initiatives across teams

What You Will Bring

• Strong hands-on experience in Golang building production-grade systems; Java exposure is a plus
• Deep understanding of concurrency performance profiling and optimization
• Proven experience designing scalable REST APIs and complex system-to-system integrations
• Strong SQL expertise with PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS
• Experience with event streaming systems like Kafka and real-time protocols like WebSockets / MQTT
• Experience debugging and operating production systems at scale
• Hands-on with cloud-native stacks - AWS or Azure Docker Kubernetes
• Solid grasp of distributed systems scalability patterns and failure handling
• Prior experience mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives
• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or similar) and observability tools (Datadog Sentry etc.)
• Experience in high-throughput real-time or transaction-heavy platforms

Good to Have

• Exposure to IoT connected devices or mobility platforms
• Familiarity with industry-standard device communication protocols
• Experience with payment / billing workflows or distributed device-integrated systems