Lead Engineer - Travel FX App

The role

A Lead Engineer will take technical ownership of complex products and systems. You will design systems, write and review code, solve engineering problems, and guide other engineers.

What you will do

• Lead technical design and execution of major products and engineering initiatives
• Design scalable, reliable and maintainable systems across backend, frontend, APIs, databases and infrastructure
• Stay hands-on with coding, prototyping, code reviews, debugging and production problem-solving
• Make architecture decisions and technical trade-offs
• Break ambiguous problems into clear engineering solutions and execution plans
• Set a high bar for code quality, system design, testing, security, observability and production reliability
• Review technical designs and code from other engineers
• Mentor engineers and help strengthen technical capability
• Identify technical risks, bottlenecks and architectural weaknesses
• Work with engineering, product, design and AI teams to ship products

Required qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with significant experience building and shipping production systems
• Deep technical expertise in one or more areas such as backend, frontend, distributed systems, APIs, databases or cloud infrastructure
• Strong system design and architecture skills
• Strong coding ability and willingness to remain hands-on
• Proven experience leading major engineering projects or providing technical leadership to other engineers
• Comfortable reviewing code, debugging complex issues and working directly with production systems
• Able to explain complex technical decisions clearly and influence engineers across teams
• Strong product sense
• Able to work fast with ambiguity and take ownership from problem definition through production
• Strong judgment around when to move quickly, when to simplify and when deeper engineering investment is required
• Strong English communication

Before you apply

• Online assessment or practical task
• Technical interview
• CEO / final round

About the company

DOIT focuses on reinventing how people spend, save, invest, exchange, and travel. They built the leading insurance platform in Southeast Asia.