About the Company：BIT (formerly Matrixport) is a global digital asset financial services and infrastructure group. Headquartered in Singapore and founded in 2019, BIT bridges traditional finance and digital assets through governance-driven financial services and technology. The firm manages over US$7 billion in assets and facilitates more than US$7 billion in monthly trading volume. BIT offers services including custody, trading, asset and wealth management, liquidity and financing solutions, and tokenised real-world assets (RWA), serving institutional and professional investors globally. BIT Group entities maintain a licensed and regulated footprint across Singapore, Hong Kong, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States and Bhutan. For more information, visit www.bit.com

Director of Software Engineering

Singapore · On-site · Employment Pass sponsorship available

About the Role

We are looking for a Director of Software Engineering to lead our backend engineering organization in Singapore. You will own the architecture of our core systems and build a team that ships reliably and with high quality — combining deep technical judgment with strong engineering leadership.

What You'll Do

Technical Direction

• Own the overall architecture and technology choices for the systems under your remit, with final accountability for their reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Lead design and review of critical modules, and drive high-complexity or high-risk initiatives with well-controlled, executable plans.
• Define the roadmap for system quality — including technical debt reduction, reusable middleware and libraries, and integration testing infrastructure.

Team Leadership

• Set goals, run performance reviews, and lead hiring and development across the engineering teams in your department.
• Understand needs across business, product, operations, and risk, and allocate engineering resources accordingly.
• Establish engineering processes and standards built for the AI era, and lead the team in applying AI pragmatically to raise delivery quality and efficiency.

What We're Looking For

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience, including 3+ years leading engineering teams.
• Expert in Golang or Rust, with hands-on experience building and maintaining large-scale applications. Comfortable with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, and SQL.
• Deep understanding of MySQL transaction isolation levels and their common patterns in real-world application development.
• Familiarity with standard cloud services, AWS in particular — EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, VPC, ELB, etc.
• Extensive experience designing, operating, and evolving distributed systems, with a deep understanding of their complexity across transactional semantics, data consistency, testability, and observability — and proven methods for managing it.
• Professional working proficiency in Mandarin for technical discussion and management communication, as the team collaborates primarily in Mandarin; proficient in written English.
• Eligible to work in Singapore, or eligible for an Employment Pass.

Nice to Have

• Experience building financial services such as asset management, trading, or payments, with familiarity in clearing and settlement, risk management, and double-entry bookkeeping.
• Familiarity with derivatives, structured products, or DeFi products.
• Experience managing cross-regional or remote teams.

What We Value

• Technical taste — You simplify relentlessly and find reliability in simplicity. You have little tolerance for uncontrolled growth in complexity.
• Curiosity — You have the interest and patience to learn new things, the drive to get to the root of a problem, and you build solutions from first principles.
• Pragmatism — Your decisions are grounded in thorough research. You respect ROI and smooth migration paths, and you know what not to build.

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