Engineering Manager - Travel FX App
Remote
Job Summary
Lead a high-performing engineering team building and scaling products used by millions across Southeast Asia. Own engineering delivery for major product areas, ensuring the team ships quickly without compromising reliability or technical quality. Drive technical architecture and engineering decisions across APIs, databases, integrations, infrastructure, and customer-facing systems while setting standards for code quality, testing, and observability. Work closely with product, design, mobile, backend, and AI teams to turn ambiguous product problems into clear technical execution. Develop engineers through regular feedback, coaching, and performance management while identifying performance gaps early. Monitor systems, resolve incidents, and ensure root causes are identified to prevent recurrence. This remote role requires strong English communication and collaboration across multiple time zones.
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
- Candidates should be comfortable working effectively in a distributed, fast-moving international team and collaborating with colleagues across different locations
Desired Qualifications
- A strong highlight means you personally helped build, ship or scale a serious product, platform or engineering organisation and can clearly explain your contribution
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