Engineering Manager - Wealth Management App
HybridBandar Utama, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Job Summary
Lead a high-performing engineering team across frontend, backend, and full stack development, owning delivery for major product areas while ensuring speed without compromising reliability. Drive technical architecture and decisions for APIs, databases, integrations, and customer-facing systems, setting standards for code quality, testing, and production observability. Work directly with product, design, and AI teams to translate ambiguous problems into clear technical execution, while coaching engineers through feedback and performance management. Monitor production systems, resolve incidents, and identify root causes to prevent recurrence, improving processes and automation to scale operations. This hybrid role requires at least three days in the local office and strong English communication skills.
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 based in, or able to work from, the location where the role is advertised
- You are expected to work from our local office at least 3 days per week
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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