Backend Engineering Lead

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.

**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.
- Conduct code reviews.
- Take ownership of the production health of the domain, assess risks and put in mitigation plans
- 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.

**Come as you are** Trust is an inclusive and open-minded workplace. If you are good at what you do and care about doing a good job, that's what we focus and want from you. So come as you are.

**Trust is an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind.** We are committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Trust are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to age, gender, physical ability, race, religion or belief, family or parental status, sexuality, or any other status protected by laws or regulations. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. We encourage applicants of all ages.