Engineering Manager - Stock Trading App
Remote
Job Summary
Lead a high-performing engineering team building and scaling products used by millions across Southeast Asia, managing frontend, backend, and full-stack developers. Own engineering delivery for major product areas, ensuring the team ships quickly without compromising reliability or technical quality. Drive technical architecture and decisions across APIs, databases, integrations, and customer-facing systems while setting standards for code quality, observability, and security. Work closely with product, design, mobile, and AI teams to translate ambiguous problems into clear technical execution. Stay close to the work through architecture reviews, code reviews, and debugging complex production issues. Develop engineers through regular feedback and coaching, identify performance gaps early, and improve processes and automation to operate at scale. Monitor systems, resolve incidents, and ensure root causes are addressed to prevent recurrence. This role is for a strong technical leader who makes sound trade-offs, balances speed with maintainability, and takes ownership when delivery slips. We are a leading insurance platform in the region expanding to help people get more from their money through next-generation financial applications.
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
- Strong track record of taking products or systems from idea through development, launch and production
- 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 — when something breaks or delivery slips, you take responsibility for getting it back on track
- English is our main working language across global teams. Strong English communication is required
Desired Qualifications
- Able to make sound architecture and technical trade-offs while balancing speed, scalability and maintainability
- Comfortable reviewing technical designs, challenging engineering decisions and debugging complex production issues
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