Lead Engineer - Stock Trading App
HybridBandar Utama, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Job Summary
Design scalable, reliable systems across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure while making architecture decisions that balance speed and maintainability. Lead technical design and execution of major products and initiatives by writing, reviewing code, debugging, and solving difficult engineering problems from idea to production. Mentor engineers, set high standards for code quality and observability, and improve tooling to increase team velocity. Own systems beyond release by monitoring production, investigating incidents, and resolving root causes. Work closely with product, design, and AI teams to ship high-quality financial applications quickly.
Required Qualifications
- Strong software engineering background with significant experience building and shipping production systems
- Deep technical expertise in one or more areas such as backend, frontend, distributed systems, APIs, databases or cloud infrastructure
- Strong system design and architecture skills with experience making technical decisions for complex or high-scale systems
- Strong coding ability and willingness to remain hands-on
- Proven experience leading major engineering projects or providing technical leadership to other engineers
- Comfortable reviewing code, debugging complex issues and working directly with production systems
- Able to explain complex technical decisions clearly and influence engineers across teams
- Strong product sense and ability to connect technical decisions to customer and business outcomes
- Able to work fast with ambiguity and take ownership from problem definition through production
- Strong judgment around when to move quickly, when to simplify and when deeper engineering investment is required
- English is our main working language across global teams. Strong English communication is required
- Candidates should be based in, or able to work from, the location where the role is advertised
- You are expected to work from our local office at least 3 days per week
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