About the role

Flo is building the future of renewable electricity retail in Singapore and Australia. We are looking for a hands-on Team Lead (Backend) to drive architecture, delivery, and team growth within a key product vertical.

What you'll do

This is a 70% hands-on technical leadership / system ownership role and 30% people management, combining deep engineering execution with responsibility for growing and enabling a high-performing team.

Technical Leadership & System Ownership

• Lead system design and architectural decisions to ensure scalability, reliability, security, and performance
• Own end-to-end delivery of complex backend systems from ideation to delivery (into production)
• Proactively manage risks, dependencies, and technical trade-offs
• Drive standardisation, reusable patterns, and platform-level improvements
• Strengthen best practices across predictability, code quality, testing, observability, and infrastructure
• Contribute meaningfully to the codebase while setting technical direction

People Management & Team Development

• Manage, mentor, and develop a team of engineers
• Conduct regular 1:1s, provide structured feedback, and support career growth
• Foster accountability, ownership, and engineering excellence
• Support hiring, onboarding, and performance development
• Cultivate a collaborative, empowered Agile culture

Delivery & Cross-Functional Impact

• Take accountability for planning and executing significant features and systems
• Build and operate platforms serving multiple markets (Singapore & Australia)
• Align technical solutions with product and business objectives
• Partner closely with Product and stakeholders to drive customer impact

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience in product-focused environments
• Proven experience leading high-scale, complex systems end-to-end
• Prior experience mentoring or managing engineers
• Strong backend and distributed systems expertise
• Ability to balance hands-on execution with team leadership
• Excellent communication and stakeholder alignment skills

Tech Stack: Kotlin, PostgreSQL, TimeScaleDB, AWS, TypeScript (experience helpful, not mandatory)

About Flo Energy

Hi, we are Flo! We are on a mission to switch as many people and businesses as possible to affordable, renewable solutions.

We began in a small shophouse in Singapore and have grown rapidly ever since, expanding into Australia with even bigger plans ahead.

Unlike other retailers, we have built our own best-in-class energy platform entirely in-house. Designed specifically for the sector, it automates complex processes and keeps costs down, letting us offer genuinely affordable products to our customers.

Behind Flo is a diverse team of passionate engineers, data scientists, operators, and energy experts. We come from different backgrounds, but we are united by the shared goal of creating a more sustainable future. If you want to make an impact and help accelerate the renewable energy transition, we would love to meet you.

Find out more about us on https://floenergy.sg/business