Lead Software Engineer - Singapore Relocation

📍 Singapore | Lead Engineer, Trade Processing | Full relocation from the UK or EU ✈️

We’re looking for a hands-on technical lead to join the Trade Processing team at a global investment firm. The team owns the high-throughput, event-driven platforms behind the firm’s post-trade lifecycle, across its Equity, Macro, Multi-Asset Arbitrage and Commodities strategies.

What you’ll be doing:

• Spending most of your time designing, writing and reviewing production code, while setting technical direction and mentoring a small team
• Owning the architecture of distributed systems built on messaging and streaming, keeping them reliable, recoverable and scalable as volumes grow
• Building new capabilities in Rust and enhancing existing C#/.NET services
• Delivering the trade lifecycle end to end, from capture and allocation through to settlement and reconciliation, plus expiries, corporate actions and cashflows
• Onboarding new products with engineers, the business and the global Operations Technology group

What you’ll need :

• A background in financial services technology
• Experience designing and building event-driven distributed systems with Kafka or similar messaging and streaming tech (Solace, Kinesis, RabbitMQ)
• Senior engineering experience, including technical leadership of complex production systems
• Strong skills in any OO language and a desire to code in Rust
• Hands-on use of AI coding tools, with the judgement to check what they produce
• Git, automated testing and CI/CD, and the ability to explain technical trade-offs to the business

Nice to have :

Rust in production, FIX, and post-trade knowledge across equities, fixed income and commodities.

The package: competitive base + bonus, with your move to Singapore fully paid.

If it sounds like you, or someone you know, drop me a message for a confidential chat 👋