Engineering Manager - Stock Trading App

Tokyo, Japan, Remote. Posted 17 days ago

The role

You will lead a high-performing engineering team to build and scale products used by millions. You will manage engineers across frontend, backend, and full stack development while driving technical architecture and engineering decisions.

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 closely with product, design, mobile, backend and AI teams
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 the 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 early and take ownership of raising the team's engineering and execution bar
Improve engineering processes, tooling and automation
Own production outcomes beyond release

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

Before you apply

Candidates should be based in, or able to work from, the location where the role is advertised
Online assessment or practical task
Technical / engineering leadership interview
CEO / final round

About the company

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