Responsibilities
- Lead multiple engineering squads or a critical product line, owning architectural direction, system design, and long-term technical strategy.
- Drive end-to-end delivery of complex, large-scale systems with high reliability, security, and performance requirements.
- Provide deep technical leadership: guide technical decisions, solve complex architectural challenges, and enforce engineering excellence across teams.
- Mentor, coach, and uplift senior engineers and tech leads, enabling strong technical ownership and growth.
- Partner with product leadership to define roadmaps, prioritise features, and align business goals with technical direction.
- Oversee system modernisation initiatives, major refactors, cloud-native transformations, and platform scaling.
- Establish robust engineering practices: CI/CD, observability, incident management, code quality, performance benchmarking.
- Lead high-impact incident response, root cause analysis, and cross-team resolution initiatives.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to stakeholders, ensuring decisions balance innovation, risk, and long-term sustainability.
Required Skills & Experience
- 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, including strong experience leading large-scale systems or platforms.
- Proven track record as a Tech Lead or Senior Tech Lead driving architecture, high-level design, and multi-squad technical direction.
- Deep expertise in backend or distributed systems using Java, Go, or Node.js, with strong knowledge of microservices and event-driven architectures.
- Advanced experience with cloud platforms (AWS highly preferred), Kubernetes, Docker, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
- Strong command of databases (SQL/NoSQL), distributed data patterns, caching layers, and performance tuning.
- Demonstrated ability to coach senior engineers, influence engineering culture, and raise technical standards organisation-wide.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to influence decisions at senior levels.
- Strong understanding of system reliability, security best practices, and production-grade design principles.
- Strategic mindset with the ability to balance hands-on technical depth and high-level architecture.
- Passion for building robust, impactful platforms and solving complex technical challenges at scale.
Ikas International (Asia) Pte Ltd
Sanderson-iKas is the brand name for iKas International (Asia) Pte Ltd
EA Licence No: 16S8086 | EA Registration No. R1988468
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