Senior Tech Lead

Role Profile

As a Senior Tech Lead, you will join a global FX engineering team who develops and maintains a global trading solution for FX NDF Matching platform that brings together the benefits of an NDF central limit order book and clearing to offer a unique solution for the global foreign exchange market fulfilling the demand for NDF market infrastructure in Asia and around the globe.

Your Role and Responsibilities:

Role Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the entire trading lifecycle, from data feeds to order execution and pre-trade risk management functionalities in FX NDF Exchange and Credit systems
• Produce high-quality software, design, and functional documentation focusing on both functional and non-functional requirements
• Work with product owners, architects and others to implement outstanding solutions that meet regulatory and customer needs
• Provide estimates for specific software feature implementation
• Identify, prioritize and implement tasks in the Software Development Life Cycle
• Build unit and component tests for your code and follow test-driven development processes to achieve quality standards
• Perform non-functional testing where necessary to verify the system meets required performance SLAs and resiliency requirements
• Develop and maintain tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code that follows open sourcing standards
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting
• Provide senior-level guidance to tech leads by overseeing solution design, driving implementation best practices, and conducting thorough design and code reviews
• Possess a strong understanding of the system’s overall architecture and collaborate closely with solution architects to drive technical strategy
• Actively participate in an Agile Scrum team, contributing to the grooming, planning, execution, and review of sprints
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional peers to ensure smooth delivery of software features
• Ensure software is up-to-date with the latest technologies and standards
• Assist front-line support teams in resolving customer and production issues
• Act as a people manager for the engineers in the team providing leadership and mentorship

Role Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering/IT/Computer Science (or equivalent) from a recognized university
• Proven software engineering and architect background in C++ or Java technologies
• Over 5 years of industry experience and at least 1 years’ experience at a similar capacity
• Experience in providing technical leadership to medium size teams
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to work effectively across teams and manage complex stakeholder relationships
• Thorough understanding of the full SDLC and related tools 
• Hands-on UNIX/Linux System Administration skills, with hands-on experience managing complex environments
• Experience and knowledge in agile methodologies
• Experience in software engineering principles, CI/CD tools and automation processes
• Experience in financial market infrastructure space preferably in FX trading is a strong plus
• Knowledge and experience with exchange/credit related systems are added benefit

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

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