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BIT (formerly Matrixport) is a global digital asset financial services and infrastructure group headquartered in Singapore. The company bridges traditional finance and digital assets through governance-driven financial services and technology, managing over $7 billion in assets and facilitating more than $7 billion in monthly trading volume. BIT offers custody, trading, asset and wealth management, liquidity and financing solutions, and tokenized real-world assets (RWA) to institutional and professional investors globally, with regulated operations across Singapore, Hong Kong, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Bhutan.
You will lead a distributed team of software engineers across different countries, supporting the systems and services of the company's asset management business. As the technical lead for the entire business unit, you will develop deep understanding of product and operational needs to plan system and team development, define the technical roadmap, and establish engineering standards. You will oversee overall delivery quality and efficiency while balancing long-term initiatives, participate in solution design and review of key modules, and develop well-controlled execution plans for high-complexity or high-risk problems.
Your responsibilities include setting goals, conducting performance reviews, and leading recruitment and training for engineering groups within the department. You will understand requirements from business, product, operations, and risk management, and adjust engineering resource allocation accordingly. You will establish development processes and engineering standards suited to the AI era, and lead the team in pragmatically using AI to improve overall delivery quality and efficiency. You will represent the team in communication with business, operations, risk management, and other departments, and coordinate with other engineering teams.
The company values intellectually curious and entrepreneurial individuals keen on making an impact in the crypto ecosystem and building products for the next billion users. The culture emphasizes openness, transparency, respect, and inclusivity, with every team member valued and heard.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 6+ years of backend development experience, including 3+ years managing technical teams
- Expert in Golang or Rust, with experience developing and maintaining large-scale applications
- Familiar with scripting and tooling languages such as Python, Bash, and SQL
- In-depth knowledge of MySQL transaction isolation mechanisms and their common patterns in real-world application development
- Familiar with standard cloud services such as AWS, including EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, VPC, and ELB
- Extensive experience designing, maintaining, and iterating on distributed systems
- Deep understanding of the complexities of distributed systems in areas such as transactional operations, data consistency, testability, and observability, with mature methodologies for addressing them
PREFERRED:
- Experience developing financial services such as asset management, trading, or payments
- Familiarity with derivatives, structured products, and DeFi products
- Experience managing cross-regional or remote teams
