TypeScript Team Lead
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What you'll do
- Coordinate the development team’s efforts, facilitate technical discussions, align priorities, and ensure smooth collaboration across projects while maintaining a hands-on coding role
- Lead the design and architecture of scalable, maintainable solutions including database schemas, API structures, backend services, and system integration patterns
- Provide technical guidance to the team on architectural decisions, design patterns, best practices, and implementation approaches
- Actively write, test, and deploy production code daily, with primary focus on backend services and system architecture
- Design and implement robust backend services and APIs using Node.js, ensuring security, scalability, and maintainability
- Design and architect RESTful APIs and/or GraphQL endpoints with proper documentation, versioning, and integration patterns
- Design efficient database schemas, optimize data models, write optimized queries, and architect data strategies that scale with business growth
- Write clean, maintainable code following best practices, conduct thorough code reviews, establish and enforce technical standards and development practices across the team
What they're looking for
- Diploma or Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field with at least 8–10 years of hands-on development experience, with strong emphasis on backend systems; experience in a technical lead or senior developer role
- Demonstrated experience coordinating development teams, facilitating technical discussions, and driving alignment on technical direction—while remaining hands-on with code
- Strong demonstrated experience in designing and architecting backend systems and APIs—you should be comfortable leading architectural decisions, designing systems from the ground up, and guiding others on architectural approaches
- Strong proficiency with TypeScript, demonstrating solid understanding of type systems and their practical application
- Strong hands-on experience building backend services with Node.js using frameworks such as Express, Hono, or Fastify, including REST API development, data handling, authentication, and database integration
- Strong experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar) including schema design, query optimization, data modeling, and database architecture decisions; familiarity with ORMs such as Prisma or Drizzle
- Strong experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs or GraphQL with proper architecture, structure, documentation, and best practices
- Proficiency with AI-assisted coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot is essential—this is a core part of how we build software at Fusang
Nice to have
- Basic familiarity with React and Next.js; able to understand frontend code and collaborate effectively with frontend developers
- Experience with AWS services and Docker containerization
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About Fusang
Fusang is Asia’s first fully-regulated digital securities exchange, pioneering the convergence of traditional finance and blockchain technology.
Licensed by the Labuan Financial Services Authority, we created the world’s first institutional tokenised sukuk—recognised with the IFN Most Innovative Deal 2023 award. With over USD 410 million in tokenised instruments issued, we’re proving that regulated digital securities are the future of capital markets.
Our mission is to build the digital superhighway for traditional finance, making investment opportunities more accessible globally. Backed by 40 years of wealth management expertise through our relationship with Portcullis Group, we combine startup innovation with institutional credibility.
We’re looking for exceptional people who want to shape the future of finance.
Role Overview:
Fusang is seeking an exceptional TypeScript Team Lead with strong architecture and system design capabilities. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you will coordinate the development team, design system architecture, guide technical decisions, and build robust backend services and full-stack applications using our core stack: TypeScript, Node.js, React, and Next.js. We are looking for someone who can lead by example—driving architectural direction while remaining deeply involved in code. This role offers strong growth opportunities for the right candidate.
Key Responsibilities:
- Team Coordination & Technical Leadership: Coordinate the development team’s efforts, facilitate technical discussions, align priorities, and ensure smooth collaboration across projects while maintaining a hands-on coding role
- System Architecture & Design: Lead the design and architecture of scalable, maintainable solutions including database schemas, API structures, backend services, and system integration patterns
- Technical Direction & Guidance: Provide technical guidance to the team on architectural decisions, design patterns, best practices, and implementation approaches
- Hands-On Development: Actively write, test, and deploy production code daily, with primary focus on backend services and system architecture
- Backend Architecture & Development: Design and implement robust backend services and APIs using Node.js, ensuring security, scalability, and maintainability
- API Design & Implementation: Design and architect RESTful APIs and/or GraphQL endpoints with proper documentation, versioning, and integration patterns
- Database Architecture: Design efficient database schemas, optimize data models, write optimized queries, and architect data strategies that scale with business growth
- Code Quality & Standards: Write clean, maintainable code following best practices, conduct thorough code reviews, establish and enforce technical standards and development practices across the team
Required Qualifications:
- Education & Experience: Diploma or Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field with at least 8–10 years of hands-on development experience, with strong emphasis on backend systems; experience in a technical lead or senior developer role
- Technical Leadership & Coordination: Demonstrated experience coordinating development teams, facilitating technical discussions, and driving alignment on technical direction—while remaining hands-on with code
- Architecture & System Design Leadership: Strong demonstrated experience in designing and architecting backend systems and APIs—you should be comfortable leading architectural decisions, designing systems from the ground up, and guiding others on architectural approaches
- TypeScript Expertise: Strong proficiency with TypeScript, demonstrating solid understanding of type systems and their practical application
- js Backend Development: Strong hands-on experience building backend services with Node.js using frameworks such as Express, Hono, or Fastify, including REST API development, data handling, authentication, and database integration
- Database Architecture: Strong experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar) including schema design, query optimization, data modeling, and database architecture decisions; familiarity with ORMs such as Prisma or Drizzle
- API Design & Architecture: Strong experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs or GraphQL with proper architecture, structure, documentation, and best practices
- AI-Assisted Development: Proficiency with AI-assisted coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot is essential—this is a core part of how we build software at Fusang
Good to have:
- Frontend Familiarity: Basic familiarity with React and Next.js; able to understand frontend code and collaborate effectively with frontend developers
- Cloud & DevOps: Experience with AWS services and Docker containerization
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