Head of Technology

Key Responsibilities

1. Leadership, Culture & Talent Development

• Culture & Mindset Reset: Build a high-trust, positive, and solution-driven engineering environment. Eliminate operational friction and cynicism, fostering psychological safety and team accountability.

• Mentorship & Internal Promotion: Coach and elevate our engineering talent. Establish clear technical benchmarks and career pathways to identify, groom, and promote internal engineers into senior and lead roles.

• Pragmatic Prioritization: Act as the strategic filter for the team. Use structured frameworking (e.g., Important vs. Urgent 2x2 Matrix) to shield engineers from ad-hoc noise, balance commercial urgency against tech debt, and protect team focus.

2. Release Governance & Deployment Gatekeeping

• Production Release Gatekeeper: Serve as the ultimate approving authority for all production releases. Enforce strict, standardized release gates—requiring verified UAT testing, mandatory peer PR approvals, passing CI/CD automated test suites, and compliance checks.

• Segregation of Duties & "4-Eyes": Enforce programmatic dual-authorization controls under MAS TRM guidelines for production deployments, database migrations, and hotfixes.

• Environment Isolation: Oversee the setup and enforcement of firewalled UAT/Staging environments seeded with sanitized mock data, ensuring zero unverified code touches production systems.

3. Technical Oversight & Code Standards

• High-Level Technical Oversight: Maintain ultimate oversight across our backend microservices ecosystem (Go, Python, Rust), ensuring systems meet reliability and security standards.

• Architectural Review: Review technical design proposals drafted by engineers, evaluating them for security, scalability, and compliance before development begins—empowering the team to own feature design.

• Code Review Rigor: Establish and enforce peer code review guidelines, testing coverage thresholds, and static analysis checks to keep code quality consistently high.

4. Infrastructure Governance & MAS TRM Compliance

• Infrastructure Governance: Partner with the Infrastructure/DevOps team to co-own platform resilience, cloud standards (AWS/GCP), container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), and automated disaster recovery protocols.

• Regulatory Authority: Act as the technical authority for regulatory audits, board-approved technical policies, and security assessments (MAS Technology Risk Management / MiCA).

• Access Control & Auditability: Enforce Privileged Access Management (PAM) and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to eliminate unmonitored direct database access, ensuring all production changes leave an immutable audit trail.

Candidate Requirements

1. Experience & Leadership

• 7+ years in software engineering with 2+ years in a technical leadership role (Engineering Manager, Tech Lead, Lead Architect, or Head of Tech/Engineering).

• Experience working in a regulated fintech, digital asset, payments, or trading platform environment.

• Proven track record of mentoring junior/mid-level engineers, building a positive team culture, and establishing release discipline.

2. Technical & Architectural Profile

• Core Language Baseline: Hands-on background in Go (Golang) or Python, with the architectural breadth to review and govern code across a polyglot microservices stack (Go, Python, Rust).

• Distributed Systems Awareness: Solid understanding of modern backend architectures, transactional databases (PostgreSQL, Redis), analytical data layers (ClickHouse), and messaging queues (Kafka, NATS, gRPC).

• Release Discipline: Demonstrated capability setting up or enforcing UAT staging workflows, CI/CD automated test gates, and release governance.

3. Regulatory & Security Domain

• Practical familiarity with MAS Technology Risk Management (TRM) guidelines, ISO 27001, SOC 2, or equivalent financial technology security frameworks.

4. Mindset & Leadership Traits

• Enabler & Governor: Ability to empower engineers to write designs and code fast while holding a firm, unyielding line as the process gatekeeper for production quality.

• Pragmatic Prioritizer: Ability to filter work ruthlessly using clear frameworks so the team focuses on what actually matters.

• High Integrity: A positive, constructive approach to leadership with zero tolerance for toxicity or defensive communication.

Our Recruitment Philosophy

• Leadership, trustworthiness, and reputation are at the core of Acheron Trading’s DNA. We seek individuals who are:

• Analytical thinkers capable of assessing and optimizing execution strategies

• Self-starters with the confidence to make informed trading decisions

• Trustworthy and accountable, ensuring reliability for colleagues and clients

• Committed to excellence, going above and beyond to uphold Acheron Trading’s reputation

Our Offer

• Competitive salary

• A clear pipeline toward a permanent, full-time role upon graduation

• The opportunity to work with one of the most innovative and fastest-growing trading firms in the industry

How to apply

• Send your resume together with a brief introduction on yourself to sean.lim@acherontrading.com

Note: we do not work with middle-men recruiters, any hire should be direct.