Lead Software Engineer

The role

The Lead Software Engineer owns technical direction and execution for major products and systems. This hands-on role involves designing systems, writing code, and driving engineering work from idea to production.

What you will do

• Owning technical design and execution for major products, systems and engineering initiatives.
• Designing scalable, reliable systems across backend, frontend, APIs, databases and infrastructure.
• Building alongside the team through coding, prototyping, code reviews, debugging and production problem-solving.
• Driving architecture decisions and trade-offs across speed, scalability, reliability, cost and maintainability.
• Turning ambiguous product problems into clear technical solutions and execution plans.
• Raising engineering quality through stronger system design, testing, security, observability and development practices.
• Leading technically critical initiatives and mentoring engineers across teams.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production systems.
• Deep expertise in backend, frontend, distributed systems, APIs, databases or cloud infrastructure.
• Strong system design and architecture skills for complex or high-scale systems.
• Strong coding ability and willingness to remain hands-on.
• Track record of technically leading major engineering projects from design through production.
• Ability to make sound technical trade-offs, influence engineers and solve complex production problems.
• Strong English communication.

Nice to have

• Experience scaling engineering teams, systems or development practices through significant growth.
• Experience operating across multiple products, markets or countries.

Before you apply

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

About the company

KIRA is a mobile-first insurance platform in Southeast Asia. The company aims to build tools to help people manage spending, saving, investing, exchanging, and travelling.