Engineering Manager - Travel FX App

The role

You will lead and manage a team of engineers across frontend, backend, and full stack development. You will drive technical architecture, engineering decisions, and product delivery from idea to production.

What you will do

• Lead and manage a team of engineers across frontend, backend and full stack development.
• Own engineering delivery for major product areas.
• Work with product, design, mobile, backend and AI teams to turn product problems into technical execution.
• Drive technical architecture and engineering decisions across APIs, databases, integrations, infrastructure and customer-facing systems.
• Set engineering standards around code quality, system design, testing, observability, security and production reliability.
• Stay close to technical work through architecture reviews, code reviews, debugging and critical engineering decisions.
• Develop engineers through regular feedback, coaching, performance management and clear expectations.
• Identify performance gaps and raise the team's engineering and execution bar.
• Improve engineering processes, tooling and automation.
• Own production outcomes, monitor systems, resolve incidents and identify root causes.

Required qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with experience building and shipping real production systems.
• Experience leading or managing software engineers and owning engineering delivery.
• Strong technical depth across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.
• Able to make sound architecture and technical trade-offs while balancing speed, scalability and maintainability.
• Strong track record of taking products or systems from idea through development, launch and production.
• Comfortable reviewing technical designs, challenging engineering decisions and debugging complex production issues.
• Strong people leadership with the ability to coach engineers, manage performance and build high-performing teams.
• Strong product sense and ability to connect engineering decisions to customer and business outcomes.
• Able to work fast with ambiguity, establish priorities and drive teams toward clear outcomes.
• Strong ownership mentality.
• Strong English communication.

About the company

BJAK is a mobile-first insurance platform in Southeast Asia. The company is expanding into spending, saving, investing, exchanging, and travelling.