Lead Software Engineer, Backend (Fintech)

Location: Singapore, Singapore; onsite at the hirify.global Singapore office

Company

hirify.global is Southeast Asia's leading superapp, providing food delivery, mobility, financial, and payment services while using technology and AI to economically empower the region.

What you will do

• Design, re-architect, build, operate, and maintain reconciliation, clearing, and settlement platforms for hirify.globalFin Payments.
• Design and develop secure, scalable, testable, and maintainable backend applications and services.
• Lead architectural decisions, technical direction, implementations, maintenance, design reviews, and code reviews.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Business Leads, Operations, and other cross-functional stakeholders to ship compliant payment features.
• Drive operational excellence, platform efficiency, observability, SLAs, security, data governance, and regulatory reporting; participate in mandatory on-call rotations.
• Recruit and mentor engineers, provide technical guidance, and lead work across global and cross-regional teams.

Requirements

• Strong foundation in computer science, including algorithms, data structures, and software engineering principles.
• At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 3 years building large-scale systems in a lead role.
• Hands-on backend development experience with Golang or web development, plus microservices and cloud platforms such as AWS.
• Experience designing scalable architectures with strong availability, testability, maintainability, and security practices.
• Hands-on experience with advanced data technologies for data-intensive problems requiring financial-grade correctness; platform-building experience is advantageous.
• Ability to translate business models and product specifications into architectures supporting growth, monetization, compliance, security, scalability, and reliability.
• Experience implementing observability, SLAs, security, data governance, compliance, and regulatory reporting practices.
• Solid Payments domain expertise, including gateways, acquirers, funds flow, reconciliation, clearing, and settlement.
• Hands-on experience with payment integrations, tokenization, encryption, real-time and offline transaction processing, modern payment backend architectures, and Agentic Software Engineering.
• Experience working with global teams and navigating complex problems in agile environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Work onsite from the hirify.global Singapore office.
• Operate mission-critical platforms running 24/7 across dynamic and diverse markets.
• Work in an environment focused on purpose, continuous improvement, technology, AI, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with global teams and cross-functional stakeholders across Payments and Finance.