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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 US$7 billion in assets and facilitating more than US$7 billion in monthly trading volume. BIT offers custody, trading, asset and wealth management, liquidity and financing solutions, and tokenised 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 the backend engineering organization in Singapore, owning the architecture of core systems and building a team that ships reliably and with high quality. This role combines deep technical judgment with strong engineering leadership.
Key responsibilities include:
• Own overall architecture and technology choices for systems under your remit, with final accountability for reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Lead design and review of critical modules; drive high-complexity or high-risk initiatives with well-controlled, executable plans.
• Define the roadmap for system quality, including technical debt reduction, reusable middleware and libraries, and integration testing infrastructure.
• Set goals, run performance reviews, and lead hiring and development across engineering teams in your department.
• Understand needs across business, product, operations, and risk; allocate engineering resources accordingly.
• Establish engineering processes and standards built for the AI era; lead the team in applying AI pragmatically to raise delivery quality and efficiency.
The company values technical taste (simplifying relentlessly, finding reliability in simplicity), curiosity (learning new things, solving from first principles), and pragmatism (decisions grounded in research, respecting ROI and smooth migration paths).
REQUIREMENTS:
• 6+ years of backend engineering experience, including 3+ years leading engineering teams.
• Expert in Golang or Rust, with hands-on experience building and maintaining large-scale applications.
• Comfortable with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, and SQL.
• Deep understanding of MySQL transaction isolation levels and their common patterns in real-world application development.
• Familiarity with standard cloud services, AWS in particular — EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, VPC, ELB, etc.
• Extensive experience designing, operating, and evolving distributed systems, with deep understanding of complexity across transactional semantics, data consistency, testability, and observability.
• Professional working proficiency in Mandarin for technical discussion and management communication; proficient in written English.
• Eligible to work in Singapore or eligible for an Employment Pass.
NICE TO HAVE:
• Experience building financial services such as asset management, trading, or payments, with familiarity in clearing and settlement, risk management, and double-entry bookkeeping.
• Familiarity with derivatives, structured products, or DeFi products.
• Experience managing cross-regional or remote teams.
