Senior Engineering Manager (Backend)
AirAsia X Kuala Lumpur Full-time
Job Description
What we do, and why we do it
The financial services industry is evolving to give consumers the transparency, control and financial wellbeing they deserve. In a world where technology can change how we live for the better, there is no reason to be burdened by legacy systems, bureaucracy and mediocrity.It’s time for a change, and you can be part of this revolution!
BigPay is everything you wish your bank was: fair, transparent, frictionless. We went back to the drawing board to explore how new technologies could bring power back to you. Our goal is to solve real world money problems for millions of people by empowering them, and providing a simple interface for users to send, receive and track their money.
Life at BigPay
We’re fast, curious and ambitious. We are on a fearless adventure to change financial services for consumers, and we value ownership, initiative and leadership from everyone in the company. We’re going out of our way to recruit the most intelligent, creative and talented people in the world.We want innovators, and that means maintaining an environment where they can flourish. Our only boss is the consumer. BigPay values highly collaborative, hardworking people, who can deconstruct problems on the fly and take the team with them, while being inventive, iterative and agile.
We never want to reach a stage where you are not challenged on a daily basis – because it means we’re not going fast enough.
We are Hiring
We are looking for a talented Senior Engineering Manager specifically in Backend to join our team. Reporting directly to the CTO, your role will be integrated within the larger team within the BigPay Group as a critical technology leader leading teams and building features for all markets.
Role Description
Your core responsibilities include (but are not limited to)
Team Leadership & People Management- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of backend engineers across multiple experience levels
- Drive hiring initiatives to build and scale the team, including candidate evaluation and interview processes
- Foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and technical excellence
- Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development planning for direct reports
- Implement retention strategies and create growth pathways that align individual aspirations with business needs
- Build and maintain high-performing, collaborative team dynamics within the squad structure
- Based in Malaysia but technically direct a distributed team of backend engineers in one or more of the Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand markets
- Provide architectural guidance and technical direction for backend systems and services
- Conduct thorough code reviews and architecture reviews(RFCs) to ensure quality and scalability
- Make strategic decisions about when to engage in hands-on coding versus focusing on leadership activities
- Take ultimate accountability for technical deliverables and project outcomes from your team
- Ensure systems are designed for reliability, performance, and maintainability at scale
- Drive adoption of engineering best practices, tools, and methodologies, in alignment with Platform CoE
- Champion engineering initiatives that improve developer productivity and system reliability, in alignment with Platform CoE
- Partner closely with Squads to translate business requirements into technical solutions, deployment and monitoring
- Facilitate effective communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Participate in squad planning sessions and cross-team coordination efforts
- Present technical concepts and project updates to executive leadership and other stakeholders, as needed
- Potential representative of backend engineering to partners, regulators and other financial institutions in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.
- Contribute to squad roadmap planning and resource allocation decisions
- Balance technical debt management with feature development priorities
- Drive estimation, planning, and delivery of complex backend initiatives
- Identify and mitigate technical and operational risks
To be successful
You should have:
- Experience in leading tech teams and on-time delivery of large scale distributed systems with a bottoms-up understanding of system architecture, interactions and complexities at scale
- Strong knowledge of system design, distributed systems architecture with proven experience of implementing the same, especially around money flows
- Strong experience in delivery management, estimation, tracking to work closely with multiple squad leads to meet objectives
- Strong knowledge of Java, Rust, or similar languages; experience with Rust, Springboot, Kotlin, Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform, Google Cloud Platform is highly beneficial
- Experience in operating production software systems at scale
- Experience in build and run of regulated systems with high uptime requirements is highly desirable
- Strong experience with distributed systems and micro-services
- Deep understanding of engineering processes such as RFCs, Development best practices etc.
- Experience working in a squad-type Agile environment across multiple functional guilds ( product, operations, backend, mobile etc. )
- Outstanding communication skills to operate at various levels of abstraction across multiple stakeholders (from juniors to C-suite) and vendors
- Capability to adapt to a dynamic, fast-paced environment
- Be a self-starter with the ability to demonstrate value and add structured thinking to abstract problems to influence our talented backend engineers with the right guidance
- Be a talent attraction magnet for potential new hires in backend engineering as a significant voice in the Malaysian technology community is highly sought after
We are all different - one talent to another - that is how we rely on our differences. At AirAsia, you will be treated fairly and given all chances to be your best.We are committed to creating a diverse work environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
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