Senior Software Engineer

About the role

The Digital Assets Technology team at Franklin Templeton builds technology to represent shares in investment products with tokens on blockchain platforms, enabling 24/7 live trading. The team supports a mobile app for retail investors, a website for institutional investors, and an internal admin tool, while enhancing the platform with new products and features. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design microservice architectures, develop mobile and web applications, manage public APIs, and deliver mission-critical systems with technical leadership. The role is based in Singapore.

What you’ll do

• Design and implement microservice software architecture
• Develop mobile applications for large-scale public usage
• Build front-end interfaces using React, Flutter, and web components
• Manage public API versioning, governance, and lifecycle
• Provide technical leadership and coaching to the team
• Brainstorm and design solutions to complex software problems
• Engage with partners and internal stakeholders
• Design and execute unit, integration, profiling, and end-to-end testing

What you’ll bring

• At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience on mission-critical systems
• Practical experience with microservice software architecture
• Mobile application development for large-scale public usage
• Front-end frameworks such as React, Flutter, and web components
• Proficiency in Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Rust, Spring, Springboot
• Experience with Azure PaaS services (Cosmos, Service Bus, Functions, SQL Server) or AWS counterparts
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Zookeeper, Zuul, Eureka, Zipkin, Splunk, Kibana, Grafana, Argo
• Knowledge of public blockchain protocols such as Stellar, Ethereum, and Solana

Nice to have

• Relevant industry experience in investment management preferred
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies
• Ability to adapt quickly to business changes
• Excellent oral and written English communication skills
• Strong organization, planning, and time management skills

Skills

Benefits

• Professional development growth opportunities through in-house classes and over 150 Web-based training courses
• Educational assistance program to financially help employees seeking continuing education
• Medical, Life and Personal Accident Insurance benefit for employees (medical covers dependents)
• Life insurance for protection of employees' families
• Personal accident insurance for protection of employees and their families

Education

An educational assistance program to financially help employees seeking continuing education