Trust is the first of a new breed of banks in Singapore – digitally native and focused on delivering a delightful customer experience. You will work in a fast-paced and collaborative environment to solve new and interesting challenges each day. Together with our Trust team, you will help shape the future of our bank and be able to work on and solve many interesting challenges which we are facing, learn new ways of working, and help build delightful high-quality products for our customers.

As a Backend Engineering Lead, you'd be able to work on and solve some of the many interesting challenges we are facing, learn new ways of working, and build delightful high-quality products for our customers.

Job Responsibilities

Guide team development efforts towards successful project delivery within the assigned domain.
Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship.
Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.
Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team.
Collaborate with the Product Manager and report to the CTO.
Participate in cross-team collaboration, both within and across departments.
Assist in the collection and documentation of user requirements, development of user stories, estimates, and work plans.
Design, develop, and unit test applications in accordance with established standards.
Conduct code reviews.
Take ownership of the production health of the domain, assess risks and put in mitigation plans
Develop, refine, and tune integrations between applications.
Analyze and resolve technical and application problems.
Assess opportunities for application and process improvement and prepare documentation of rationale to share with team members and other affected parties.
Adhere to high-quality development principles while delivering solutions on time and on budget.
Research and evaluate a variety of software products.

In order to be successful at the role, you must have the following:

10+ years of overall experience with the majority of this experience as an Engineering Lead or Manager.
Experience working in Fintech / Financial organisations is an added advantage.
At least 5 years of demonstrable leadership experience, at an individual team level and working across demographically distributed teams and organizational boundaries.
Good experience in creating actionable strategies, with clear outcomes, and continuous measurement of progress.
Ability to produce and communicate effective and insightful thought leadership on technical topics.
Strong technical background in (AWS, Spring Boot, Kotlin, K8s, Microservices, Kafka, Istio, event-driven architecture).
Exposure to Cloud Technologies, SRE (Site Reliability Engineering), and DevOps concepts with a focus on automation.
Ability to take ownership and deliver results in a challenging client-facing environment.
A degree in a relevant area of study would be helpful but not mandatory

Role Specific Technical Competencies

Strong technical background in (AWS, Spring Boot, Kotlin, K8s, Microservices, Kafka, Istio, event-driven architecture).
Exposure to Cloud Technologies, SRE (Site Reliability Engineering), and DevOps concepts with a focus on automation.

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