Backend Technical Lead | Cloud-Native | Golang

Our client is a large, established Singapore-headquartered group with a strong consumer and enterprise footprint. They are investing heavily in building a next-generation, large-scale connected platform that powers thousands of real-time, device-integrated transactions daily. They are looking for a hands-on Backend Technical Lead to own the backend vision and engineering excellence for this fast-scaling platform. This is a high-impact, player-coach role at the intersection of software, IoT, and real-time systems. The Role You will be the technical anchor for the backend - driving architecture, end-to-end delivery, and operational maturity of a mission-critical, cloud-native platform. You will partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Infrastructure teams to build resilient, high-performance systems at scale. What You Will Own & Drive • Define and evolve backend architecture, system design, and technical roadmap for a distributed, high-traffic platform • Own end-to-end delivery of backend services - from design to deployment to production ownership • Build for high availability, performance, and security • Champion engineering best practices through design reviews, code quality, and pragmatic build-vs-scale decisions • Architect and scale event-driven and asynchronous workflows for real-time operations • Drive database performance, indexing strategy, and cost optimization • Lead production troubleshooting, incident management and root cause analysis • Partner with DevOps to strengthen CI/CD, observability, monitoring and reliability • Mentor engineers and lead technical initiatives across teams What You Will Bring • Strong hands-on experience in Golang building production-grade systems; Java exposure is a plus • Deep understanding of concurrency, performance profiling and optimization • Proven experience designing scalable REST APIs and complex system-to-system integrations • Strong SQL expertise with PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS • Experience with event streaming systems like Kafka and real-time protocols like WebSockets / MQTT • Experience debugging and operating production systems at scale • Hands-on with cloud-native stacks - AWS or Azure , Docker, Kubernetes • Solid grasp of distributed systems, scalability patterns and failure handling • Prior experience mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives • Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or similar) and observability tools (Datadog, Sentry etc.) • Experience in high-throughput, real-time, or transaction-heavy platforms Good to Have • Exposure to IoT, connected devices, or mobility platforms • Familiarity with industry-standard device communication protocols • Experience with payment / billing workflows or distributed device-integrated systems