Engineering Manager

The role

You will lead a high-performing engineering team building and scaling products for millions of users. 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 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.

Before you apply

• 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 aims to help people plan, save and grow their money through smarter ways to manage finances.