Liberty Specialty Markets Hiring! Full Time Technical Lead, Technology-Engineering in Hong Kong - Ricebowl

General information

Country: Hong Kong

Creation Date: 23-Feb-2026

Employment Type: Permanent

Employment Type: Full time

Ref #: *************

Description & Requirements

Role Title: Technical Lead, Technology-Engineering

Department: Technology

Location: Hong Kong

Type: Permanent

Job Summary

Acting as a Lead in the engineering team to drive a scalable, maintainable products and improve engineering practices. Especially with Singapore/ Hong Kong-focused projects, working closely with different business units and driving the technical and architecture design to achieve the Company’s goals. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead design and architecture discussions for new features and platform improvements; own technical decisions and trade-offs.
• Work closely with the Regional Architecture team to define and document the target state / North star for the Market tech landscape.
• Write and review code, implement critical components, and unblock the team through hands-on contributions.
• Mentor and grow engineers: provide feedback, conduct 1:1s, support career development and hiring.
• Plan and deliver work: break down requirements, estimate effort, prioritize tasks, drive sprint execution and releases.
• Ensure quality and reliability: Leverage AI assisted coding to drive productivity, enforce code reviews, testing strategy (unit/integration/e2e), observability and monitoring.
• Drive CI/CD, automated testing and deployment pipelines; improve development productivity and reduce lead time.
• Collaborate with Product, QA, DevOps and Stakeholders to define requirements, acceptance criteria and delivery timelines.
• Manage technical debt: identify, prioritize and drive remediation work alongside feature delivery.
• Ensure security, compliance and performance best practices are followed- Embed shift-left security model, threat modeling into design reviews earlier in SDLC.
• Track and report engineering metrics (velocity, cycle time, defect rate, availability) and act on them.

Job Qualifications:

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with 2–4+ years in a technical lead or senior engineering role.
• Strong programming experience in at least one backend/front-end language ( Java 8 and latest version, Spring boot, Spring MVC, Angular, React)
• Proven system design skills for building scalable, distributed systems (microservices, event-driven architectures).
• AI-Assisted Development, testing & Debugging : Experience using GitHub Copilot Agent mode for rapid prototyping, debugging, autonomously correct code issues and iterative development.
• Practical experience with cloud platforms (AWS) and containerization (Docker).
• Experience with CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Solid understanding of databases (SQL and NoSQL), caching, and messaging systems.
• Familiarity with testing strategies, automated test frameworks and observability tools (logs, metrics, tracing).
• Strong problem-solving, debugging and performance tuning skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication; comfortable working with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience in vendor management.