Head of Engineering

What you'll be doing:

• Strategic Leadership:

- Define and execute the technical vision and strategy for the platform, ensuring alignment with the company’s goals. - Lead the engineering team to build scalable, secure, and high-performance features for the exchange, with a focus on availability, security, and usability. - Collaborate with executive leadership and product managers to create and refine the engineering roadmap, prioritizing key initiatives to drive business growth.

• Team Leadership and Development:

- Manage, mentor, and inspire a team of product engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and accountability. - Recruit top talent, develop engineering leadership within the team, and establish career development frameworks to grow internal talent. - Encourage cross-functional collaboration and ensure effective communication between engineering, product, UX/UI, security, and operations teams.

• Product Development and Delivery:

- Oversee the end-to-end product engineering lifecycle, from ideation to implementation, ensuring features are delivered on time, on budget, and to the highest quality standards. - Provide leadership in the architecture and design of scalable, low-latency systems, ensuring high throughput for trading operations. - Drive continuous product improvements, responding quickly to market changes and customer feedback, while ensuring regulatory compliance and security standards.

• Platform Scalability and Performance:

- Ensure the platform is optimized for scalability, with the ability to handle high volumes of transactions, low latency, and seamless performance during peak periods. - Champion best practices in software engineering, including automated testing, continuous integration, and monitoring. - Manage and improve the platform’s infrastructure, focusing on high availability, redundancy, and disaster recovery processes.

• Security and Compliance:

- Ensure that platform security is a top priority, implementing best practices and industry standards for data protection, anti-money laundering (AML), and know your customer (KYC) compliance. - Lead initiatives to continuously evaluate and enhance the platform’s security posture, proactively identifying and mitigating risks. - Work with the legal and compliance teams to ensure that product development and engineering are aligned with regulatory requirements.

• Innovation and Market Leadership:

- Stay at the forefront of emerging trends in fintech, blockchain, and digital asset exchanges, driving the adoption of new technologies and practices to improve the platform. - Conduct research and development on innovative solutions to enhance the exchange’s capabilities, such as enhanced trading algorithms, risk management tools, and blockchain integrations.

• Process Improvement and Efficiency:

- Establish and refine engineering processes to enhance efficiency, transparency, and collaboration across teams. - Implement metrics and performance KPIs to measure the success of engineering initiatives and the overall product engineering function.

What we're looking for:

• Experience:

- Minimum of 10+ years of experience in product engineering roles, with at least 5+ years in a leadership capacity managing engineering teams. - Proven track record of leading the development of broker-dealer trading systems platforms or similar complex financial systems (e.g., quantitative trading systems, order book, risk management systems). - Strong understanding of cryptocurrency and digital asset markets, trading systems, and exchange architectures is a significant advantage. - Experience in building highly available, low-latency, and high-performance financial applications.

• Technical Skills:

- Expertise in software architecture and engineering best practices (microservices, APIs, distributed systems). - Hands-on experience with modern programming languages (e.g., Ruby, Python, Go, Java, C++) and relevant tech stacks. - In-depth knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes). - Familiarity with blockchain technology, smart contracts, and digital asset transaction systems. - Experience with DevOps practices and tools (CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring).

• Leadership & Communication:

- Excellent leadership skills with a history of successfully managing and growing engineering teams. - Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment and prioritize effectively across multiple initiatives.

What’s in it for you:

• Friendly and fun start-up work culture
• Convenient work location located in the heart of CBD area
• Generous annual leaves on top of national holidays
• Medical coverage including GP, Specialist, TCM, and more
• Self-care benefits and exciting fitness workshops/webinars
• Vibrant office with a well-stocked pantry