Staff Software Engineer - New Markets

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Software Engineer – New Markets Singapore/SEA based in India.

We are looking for a senior backend engineering leader to architect mission-critical brokerage infrastructure and support expansion into Singapore and Southeast Asia.
You will shape the technical foundations of complex financial systems, spanning customer accounts, compliance, risk controls, clearing, settlement, and custody.
As the founding technical lead for the region, you will influence architecture and engineering strategy beyond your immediate team.
You will combine hands-on development with technical leadership, mentoring, regional recruitment, and cross-functional project delivery.
You will also drive market-specific integrations and help adapt platforms to local currencies, languages, regulations, and operational requirements.
In this highly distributed environment, you will play a central role in engineering reliability and incident response across regional business hours.

Accountabilities

You will lead the architecture, development, and regional implementation of scalable brokerage systems, while establishing strong engineering practices and operational reliability. Your responsibilities will include:

• Architect and design highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage platforms and services supporting multiple products and markets.

• Develop and enhance middle- and back-office systems, including gRPC microservices, REST APIs, and third-party vendor integrations.

• Build and maintain customer account infrastructure, sensitive personal information systems, and KYC, customer due diligence, anti-money laundering, and sanctions-screening controls.

• Design and implement pre-trade risk and eligibility systems, including real-time multi-currency buying-power calculations, margin requirements, and order validation.

• Develop and maintain financial systems based on double-entry ledgers and accurate books-and-records principles.

• Support post-trade operations, including clearing, settlement, custody, corporate actions, reconciliation, and regulatory reporting.

• Collaborate with core engineering teams to extend platform capabilities for regional languages, currencies, regulations, and market requirements, starting with Singapore and expanding across Southeast Asia.

• Lead cross-functional technical initiatives, establish engineering standards, improve code review practices, and guide technical decision-making.

• Mentor engineers, provide strategic architectural guidance, and contribute to long-term engineering roadmaps.

• Lead regional technical integrations and recruitment for new market launches, working with local stakeholders and regulatory bodies.

• Act as the regional incident commander and operational reliability lead during Singapore business hours, helping maintain proactive 24/7 system stability.

• Participate in on-call rotations and coordinate timely investigation and resolution of production incidents.

• Collaborate across international teams, including colleagues working in Japan, the United States, and Europe, while attending meetings aligned with Singapore business hours.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate combines extensive backend engineering expertise in financial services with deep knowledge of broker-dealer operations, regulatory frameworks, and distributed systems architecture. They should also be comfortable balancing hands-on technical work with regional leadership responsibilities. Required qualifications include:

• Business-level English proficiency, with the ability to participate effectively in English-language meetings, architecture discussions, code reviews, and technical documentation.

• Extensive hands-on experience building middle- and back-office broker-dealer systems of record serving end investors, particularly in clearing, settlement, custody, corporate actions, and reconciliation. Experience limited to trading desks or market-making infrastructure is not sufficient on its own.

• Proven experience architecting and developing complex financial systems based on double-entry accounting ledgers and books-and-records models.

• Deep experience designing customer account management infrastructure involving sensitive personal data, KYC, customer due diligence, anti-money laundering, and sanctions screening throughout the account lifecycle.

• Demonstrated expertise 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 comparable modern backend programming language.

• Extensive production experience designing and developing high-throughput REST and gRPC microservices.

• Strong architectural knowledge of domain-driven design (DDD) and event-driven distributed systems for highly available financial applications.

• Thorough familiarity with Singapore's regulatory environment, including Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) requirements, the Securities and Futures Act, and MAS Notice SFA04-N02 on AML/CFT.

• Knowledge of broader Southeast Asian financial markets and regional data protection requirements, particularly Singapore's Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA).

• Proven ability to combine hands-on architecture and development with technical leadership, mentoring, strategic decision-making, and roadmap ownership.

• Strong incident management and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to lead production issue resolution during Singapore business hours.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Current residence in Singapore.

• Experience launching financial products across multiple Southeast Asian markets, such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, or the Philippines.

• Fluency in an additional regional language, such as Mandarin, Bahasa Indonesia or Malay, Thai, or Vietnamese.

• Experience working in a startup or rapidly growing technology organization.

• Experience managing external vendors and organizational budgets.

• Strong knowledge of microservices, service mesh architectures, and large-scale distributed systems.

• Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure, and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary.

• Stock options.

• Health benefits.

• One-time USD 500 home-office setup allowance for new hires.

• Monthly USD 150 stipend provided through a Brex Card.

• Opportunity to contribute to the development of financial infrastructure and support expansion into new international markets.