Head of Engineering
Libeara provides compliant, institutional-grade tokenisation infrastructure that brings traditional capital markets on-chain.
About Libeara
Libeara is a Singapore-based tokenisation platform incubated by SC Ventures. It helps institutions structure, issue, manage, and distribute tokenised funds, government securities, and private securities through regulation-first infrastructure built around legal enforceability, governance, compliance, investor protection, and interoperability with public blockchains. The company also provides tokenisation advisory and digital securities expertise to governments, regulated fund managers, asset owners, and other capital-market participants.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own technology strategy, architecture, engineering standards, and delivery for a regulated on-chain platform. You will lead engineers and vendors, make critical technical decisions, embed security and risk controls, support operational resilience, and work with stakeholders on technology direction and integrations.
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline
- 15+ years of experience building and scaling complex digital platforms
- 10+ years leading engineering teams and owning solution architecture for mission-critical systems
- Experience with blockchain infrastructure, smart-contract-enabled systems, or distributed ledgers
- Experience with layer-1 or layer-2 platforms, node infrastructure, or protocol integrations
- Hands-on experience with custody platforms, tokenisation workflows, and KYC or AML integrations
- Background in service-based and microservices architectures
- Exposure to event-driven or distributed systems
- Understanding of application security, cryptographic key management, data protection, and regulatory expectations
- Experience with DevOps practices, cloud infrastructure, and modern deployment pipelines
- Startup or scale-up experience
- Web3 experience
Responsibilities
- Own technology strategy, architecture, and engineering standards across the solution stack
- Design and evolve a secure, scalable on-chain platform for tokenised real-world assets
- Architect systems that combine blockchain-native design with auditability, security, and operational resilience
- Make and review critical architectural decisions on system design, protocol choices, and integration patterns
- Define and maintain the technology blueprint across chains, environments, and regulated partners
- Embed quality assurance, application security, data protection, and cryptographic key management into the platform
- Lead engineering delivery across backend, blockchain, platform, and front-end development
- Participate in sprint planning, prioritisation, delivery, and release management
- Translate regulated capital-markets workflows into scalable on-chain systems
- Manage and coordinate external engineering vendors
- Embed risk and control practices into engineering work
- Identify, assess, and mitigate technology, security, smart contract, vendor, and delivery risks
- Partner with Legal, Risk, and Compliance stakeholders to support audit readiness and regulatory alignment
- Support disaster recovery, business continuity planning, and incident response across cloud and blockchain components
- Align technology direction and execution with leadership and stakeholders
- Collaborate with banks, custodians, KYC providers, blockchain infrastructure partners, and other ecosystem participants
- Influence decision-making through technical judgment
