Staff Software Engineer - New Markets Singapore/SEA (Fintech)

Location: Remote in Singapore or APAC; Singapore business hours required, with occasional meetings across Japan, the US, and the EU.

Company

hirify.global is a US-headquartered brokerage infrastructure company providing APIs and systems for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and 24/5 trading to financial institutions across 40 countries.

What you will do

• Architect and develop scalable, mission-critical brokerage systems across multiple products and services.
• Build middle- and back-office systems, including gRPC microservices, APIs, vendor integrations, customer account and PII systems, KYC/CDD/AML controls, ledgers, clearing, settlement, custody, reconciliation, and regulatory reporting.
• Extend platform frameworks for regional languages, currencies, regulations, and market launches across Singapore and Southeast Asia.
• Lead cross-functional technical projects, regional recruitment, engineering standards, code reviews, and technical decision-making.
• Mentor engineers, shape long-term roadmaps, and provide strategic technical guidance across the organization.
• Act as regional operational reliability lead and incident commander during Singapore business hours, participating in on-call rotations and supporting proactive 24/7 stability.

Requirements

• Business-level English for English-only meetings, design discussions, code reviews, and documentation.
• Extensive hands-on experience building broker-dealer middle- and back-office systems of record for end investors, including clearing, settlement, custody, corporate actions, and reconciliation; front-office trading experience alone is insufficient.
• Experience architecting complex financial systems based on double-entry ledgers and books-and-records models.
• Deep experience with customer account infrastructure, sensitive PII, KYC/CDD/AML, sanctions screening, and full account-lifecycle controls.
• Experience implementing pre-trade risk and eligibility controls, including real-time multi-currency buying-power calculations, margin requirements, and order validation.
• Advanced proficiency in Go or a similar modern backend language, with extensive production experience designing high-throughput REST and gRPC microservices.
• Deep architectural experience with domain-driven design and event-driven distributed systems for highly available financial applications.
• Thorough familiarity with Singapore regulatory requirements, including MAS, the Securities and Futures Act, and MAS Notice SFA04-N02 on AML/CFT, as well as Southeast Asian financial markets.
• Working knowledge of Singapore PDPA and regional data-protection requirements.
• Ability to combine hands-on architecture with technical leadership, mentoring, roadmap development, incident leadership, and troubleshooting during Singapore business hours.

Nice to have

• Residence in Singapore.
• Experience launching products in multiple Southeast Asian markets, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, or the Philippines.
• Additional regional language proficiency, such as Mandarin, Bahasa Indonesia/Malay, Thai, or Vietnamese.
• Startup or fast-growing technology company experience.
• Vendor management and organizational budgeting experience.
• Experience with microservices, service mesh, distributed systems at scale, cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure, and Kubernetes.

Culture & Benefits

• Globally distributed engineering organization with teammates across the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and other locations.
• Competitive salary and stock options.
• Health benefits.
• One-time USD $500 home-office setup allowance for new hires.
• USD $150 monthly stipend through a Brex Card.