Staff Engineer

About us:

MatchMove is a profitable Singapore-based fintech company and one of Asia’s leading Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) providers, enabling businesses to embed financial services directly into their digital ecosystems. Operating its proprietary, secure, and regulated Banking Wallet OS™ platform across Asia and beyond, MatchMove empowers enterprises to issue accounts, cards, payments, loans, and other financial products seamlessly within their own platforms.

The company is experiencing double-digit year-on-year growth and processes billions of transactions each year, underscoring its scale, resilience, and trust among partners and users. Recognized with multiple industry awards including the Frost & Sullivan’s 2025 Singapore Enabling Technology Leadership Recognition for Excellence in Embedded Finance Innovation. MatchMove has been celebrated for driving innovation across a wide range of embedded finance use cases.

By partnering with leading local banks and ecosystem players, MatchMove bridges the gap between traditional banking and modern digital commerce. Its mission is to deliver innovative, secure, and inclusive financial technology solutions that drive digital transformation for businesses while empowering millions of end users across the region.

With a strong commitment to innovation, regulatory excellence, and sustainable growth, MatchMove continues to pioneer new approaches to embedded finance, redefining how businesses and consumers access and interact with financial services in Asia and beyond.

Skills: #Golang #DistributedSystems #Microservices #Fintech #CloudNative #SoftwareArchitecture #EngineeringLeadership

Are You The One?

You are a seasoned technologist with a product mindset — equally comfortable designing a distributed ledger service or simplifying a compliance-driven API for partner integration. You understand that technical excellence is not just about code — it’s about systems that scale safely, teams that deliver predictably, and decisions that align with long-term product goals.

You will be a technical north star for multiple product and platform teams — defining architecture, aligning technical strategies with business outcomes, and mentoring technical leads and senior engineers to raise the engineering bar.

You Will Contribute To

Domain and Architectural Leadership

• Deeply understand core financial domains (card issuance, payments orchestration, remittance, ledger systems) and translate this knowledge into resilient bounded contexts, canonical data models, and API standards.
• Define and own the long-term backend architecture roadmap, ensuring coherence across microservices and shared infrastructure.
• Champion clean architecture and Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles, owning complex cross-domain decisions (e.g., transaction reconciliation, settlement workflows).
• Serve as the architectural authority in design reviews, incident postmortems, and roadmap discussions.

Engineering Excellence and Quality

• Lead the engineering excellence charter, establishing organization-wide guidelines for code quality, testing, CI/CD, and security hygiene.
• Define and continuously track key engineering KPIs (e.g., Service SLAs, MTTR, Deployment Frequency) to quantify and improve outcomes.
• Mentor technical leads and senior engineers, raising the overall engineering bar and enabling Generative AI-assisted engineering workflows responsibly.

Hands-on Technical Contribution

• Architect, prototype, and profile Go-based distributed services for high-throughput, low-latency financial flows.
• Apply expert knowledge of Go's concurrency, synchronization, and runtime tuning to design performant and scalable services.
• Lead postmortems, fault-injection sessions, and conduct deep-dive performance tuning using tools like $pprof$.

Stakeholder Collaboration and Influence

• Partner closely with Product, Compliance, Risk, and Business teams, translating functional requirements into resilient technical designs.
• Represent engineering trade-offs in executive forums and lead major cross-functional initiatives (e.g., multi-region rollout, PCI-DSS compliance).
• Maintain technical debt registers and remediation plans, acting as the technical conscience to balance delivery pace with operational integrity, security, and auditability.

Required Experience and Qualifications

• 8–12 years of backend engineering experience, with at least 5 years in Go in high-scale, distributed systems.
• Proven experience architecting and scaling financial systems (payments orchestration, card processing, or ledgering).
• Expert understanding of Go concurrency, synchronization, and runtime tuning.
• Strong grounding in relational data design (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and event-driven patterns.
• Practical knowledge of security, encryption, and compliance standards (PCI-DSS, MAS, ISO 27001) in a regulated fintech environment.
• Experienced in observability and SRE practices (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana) and capacity planning.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers and influence technical direction at scale, including articulating complex issues to all organizational levels.
• Familiarity with IaC, Kubernetes, service mesh, and API gateways.
• Experience with AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g., Copilot, CodeWhisperer) is a plus.

MatchMove Culture:

• We cultivate a dynamic and innovative culture that fuels growth, creativity, and collaboration. Our fast-paced fintech environment thrives on adaptability, agility, and open communication.
• We are AI-first in our approach. We embrace AI as a strategic tool that enhances decision-making, creativity, and productivity. Every team member is equipped and encouraged to integrate AI into their workflow, experiment with new tools, and contribute to our collective AI literacy.
• We focus on employee development, supporting continuous learning and growth through training programs, learning on the job and mentorship.
• We encourage speaking up, sharing ideas, and taking ownership. Embracing diversity, our team spans across Asia, fostering a rich exchange of perspectives and experiences.
• Together, we harness the power of fintech and e-commerce to impact people's lives meaningfully.
• Grow with us and shape the future of fintech. Join us and be part of something bigger! 

Personal Data Protection Act:

By submitting your application for this job, you are authorizing MatchMove to:

- collect and use your personal data, and to disclose such data to any third party with whom MatchMove or any of its related corporations have service arrangements, in each case for all purposes in connection with your job application, and employment with MatchMove; and
- retain your personal data for one year for consideration of future job opportunities (where applicable).


Thank you for your application and interest in MatchMove.

We appreciate you taking the time and we will carefully review your application, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for the next stage of the interview process. 

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