Software Architect | Mandarin Speaking

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Software Architect to design and define the technical architecture for our core systems and platforms. This is a senior technical role focused on creating robust, scalable, and secure system architectures that support business-critical operations and enable future growth.

Key Responsibilities

1. Architecture & Technical Leadership

• Lead end-to-end system architecture design aligned with enterprise and domain architecture standards, covering web, mobile and desktop platforms.
• Architect scalable, resilient and maintainable systems for microservices, distributed environments, real-time workloads and high concurrency scenarios.
• Drive key technical decisions; produce architecture artifacts including blueprints, PoC, RFCs and system design documentation.
• Conduct architecture reviews, performance assessments and technical risk analysis for major initiatives.
• Influence program-level decisions through structured analysis, risk assessment, and design recommendations
• Support integration architecture across APIs, message queues, event-driven workflows and external systems. 

2. Technology Strategy & Governance

• Contribute to the enterprise architecture roadmap to ensure alignment with long-term technology strategy.
• Define and maintain engineering standards, reusable design patterns and best practices.
• Participate in technical evaluation/approval and ensure project delivery meets architecture expectations.

3. Cross-team Collaboration

• Partner with Product, Engineering, QA, Security, Infrastructure and business teams for solution alignment.
• Provide technical leadership for frontend & backend teams, ensuring consistency across platforms.

4. Security, Integration & Compliance

• Work with Security/Audit teams to ensure solutions comply with regulatory, privacy and data-protection requirements.

Requirements

What You Bring

• 5+ years of experience in System/Software/Solution Architecture, covering application, data, technology and security domains.

• Strong full-stack architecture capability — able to design modern frontend & backend systems.
• Solid experience with microservices, distributed design, system integration and API architecture.
• Familiarity with integration patterns including sockets, queues (Kafka preferred), event streaming and async communication.
• Hands-on knowledge of cloud-native architecture (AWS preferred), Kubernetes, containerization and DevOps pipelines.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management ability — able to translate technical concepts to business language.

Nice to Have

• Experience with FinTech, CRM platforms, trading/high-transaction systems or real-time data processing.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, SRE/DevOps practices, observability & performance engineering.
• Experience with AI-assisted engineering, automation or modernization projects.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.
• Opportunities for career growth and development within a global company.
• Collaborative and inclusive work environment with exposure to cross-region operations.
• Health and wellness benefits.
• Flexible working arrangements.