Director, Software Engineering, Digital Platform

Location: Employment Type: Full-time, onsite

Relocation: Required for candidates currently based outside Singapore A rapidly growing proprietary trading firm is seeking a Head of Trading Technology to lead the development of its next-generation, low-latency trading infrastructure. This is a hands-on technical leadership position with ownership of the architecture and delivery of a greenfield trading platform supporting both traditional and digital-asset markets. The platform will cover the full trading lifecycle, including market-data ingestion, exchange connectivity, pricing, order and execution management, smart routing, risk, and infrastructure. The successful candidate will lead and mentor a team of software engineers, platform engineers, and architects while remaining actively involved in system design, critical code reviews, performance optimization, and complex technical problem-solving. Own the end-to-end architecture and delivery of a high-performance, low-latency trading platform. Lead the greenfield development of market-data, connectivity, execution, pricing, routing, and risk systems. Remain hands-on by writing and reviewing critical code and resolving complex latency, throughput, and performance issues. Lead, grow, and mentor a high-performing engineering organization. Set development priorities, establish timelines, manage dependencies, and ensure the delivery of production-quality systems. Partner closely with traders, quantitative researchers, infrastructure engineers, and business stakeholders. Introduce AI-assisted development practices that improve engineering workflows, tooling, testing, and delivery. Establish and enforce engineering standards covering testing, CI/CD, monitoring, observability, security, and production support. Identify and mitigate technical, operational, and delivery risks. At least 10 years of software-engineering experience, including five or more years in a technical leadership position. Proven hands-on experience building or optimizing high-performance, low-latency trading systems. Strong programming ability in C++, Rust, or another high-performance systems language. Experience with multithreading, concurrency, distributed computing, networking, and performance optimization. Strong understanding of the complete electronic-trading lifecycle, including market data, pricing, order management, execution, risk, positions, and clearing. Willingness to remain technically engaged while leading the broader engineering function. Background within high-frequency trading, electronic market making, systematic trading, or quantitative finance. Experience building trading infrastructure across equities, futures, commodities, derivatives, digital assets, or other high-frequency markets. Knowledge of real-time market-data processing, smart order routing, automated execution, pricing, and risk. Exposure to on-chain trading, decentralized finance, or tokenized real-world assets is helpful but not required. Experience creating new trading platforms or replacing legacy trading infrastructure. Candidates currently based elsewhere must be prepared to relocate. Remote and hybrid arrangements are not available.