Staff Engineer

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MatchMove is a profitable Singapore-based fintech company and one of Asia's leading Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) providers, enabling businesses to embed financial services directly into their digital ecosystems. Operating its proprietary, secure, and regulated Banking Wallet OS™ platform across Asia and beyond, MatchMove empowers enterprises to issue accounts, cards, payments, loans, and other financial products seamlessly within their own platforms. The company is experiencing double-digit year-on-year growth and processes billions of transactions each year, underscoring its scale, resilience, and trust among partners and users. Recognized with multiple industry awards including the Frost & Sullivan's 2025 Singapore Enabling Technology Leadership Recognition for Excellence in Embedded Finance Innovation. MatchMove has been celebrated for driving innovation across a wide range of embedded finance use cases. By partnering with leading local banks and ecosystem players, MatchMove bridges the gap between traditional banking and modern digital commerce. Its mission is to deliver innovative, secure, and inclusive financial technology solutions that drive digital transformation for businesses while empowering millions of end users across the region. With a strong commitment to innovation, regulatory excellence, and sustainable growth, MatchMove continues to pioneer new approaches to embedded finance, redefining how businesses and consumers access and interact with financial services in Asia and beyond. Skills: #Golang #DistributedSystems #Microservices #Fintech #CloudNative #SoftwareArchitecture #EngineeringLeadership Are You The One? You are a seasoned technologist with a product mindset - equally comfortable designing a distributed ledger service or simplifying a compliance-driven API for partner integration. You understand that technical excellence is not just about code - it's about systems that scale safely, teams that deliver predictably, and decisions that align with long-term product goals. You will be a technical north star for multiple product and platform teams - defining architecture, aligning technical strategies with business outcomes, and mentoring technical leads and senior engineers to raise the engineering bar. You Will Contribute To Domain and Architectural Leadership Deeply understand core financial domains (card issuance, payments orchestration, remittance, ledger systems) and translate this knowledge into resilient bounded contexts, canonical data models, and API standards . Define and own the long-term backend architecture roadmap , ensuring coherence across microservices and shared infrastructure. Champion clean architecture and Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles, owning complex cross-domain decisions (e.g., transaction reconciliation, settlement workflows). Serve as the architectural authority in design reviews, incident postmortems, and roadmap discussions. Engineering Excellence and Quality Lead the engineering excellence charter , establishing organization-wide guidelines for code quality, testing, CI/CD, and security hygiene. Define and continuously track key engineering KPIs (e.g., Service SLAs, MTTR, Deployment Frequency) to quantify and improve outcomes. Mentor technical leads and senior engineers, raising the overall engineering bar and enabling Generative AI-assisted engineering workflows responsibly. Hands-on Technical Contribution Architect, prototype, and profile Go-based distributed services for high-throughput, low-latency financial flows. Apply expert knowledge of Go's concurrency, synchronization, and runtime tuning to design performant and scalable services. Lead postmortems, fault-injection sessions, and conduct deep-dive performance tuning using tools like $pprof$. Stakeholder Collaboration and Influence Partner closely with Product, Compliance, Risk, and Business teams, translating functional requirements into resilient technical designs. Represent engineering trade-offs in executive forums and lead major cross-functional initiatives (e.g., multi-region rollout, PCI-DSS compliance). Maintain technical debt registers and remediation plans, acting as the technical conscience to balance delivery pace with operational integrity, security, and auditability. Required Experience and Qualifications 8-12 years of backend engineering experience, with at least 5 years in Go in high-scale, distributed systems. Proven experience architecting and scaling financial systems (payments orchestration, card processing, or ledgering). Expert understanding of Go concurrency, synchronization, and runtime tuning. Strong grounding in relational data design (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and event-driven patterns. Practical knowledge of security, encryption, and compliance standards (PCI-DSS, MAS, ISO 27001) in a regulated fintech environment. Experienced in observability and SRE practices (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana) and capacity planning. D

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