Hybrid Engineering Manager

at YouTrip

• Job title: Engineering Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior, Mid level
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Distributed Systems, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Singapore

About the role

• Engineering Manager driving the development of scalable applications at YouTrip, Asia's top multi-currency payment platform. Overseeing teams and ensuring innovative fintech solutions as part of a fast-growing startup.

Responsibilities

• Mentor and manage a team of software engineers, setting clear goals, facilitating career development, and conducting regular performance evaluations.
• Oversee software project execution, ensuring on-time delivery while meeting quality standards.
• Stay hands-on by contributing to codebases, performing code reviews, and maintaining technical deputy to provide meaning guidance to the team.
• Define and drive technical direction, incorporating emerging technologies and industry best practices to improve innovation and scalability.
• Uphold engineering excellence by enforcing coding standards, fostering test automation, and continuously improving development processes.
• Foster a collaborative environment and ensure clear communication within the team and with cross-functional teams.
• Regularly engage with stakeholders, sharing progress updates, technical insights, and delivery outcomes.
• Coach engineers both technically and professionally - helping them grow into stronger, more autonomous contributors.
• Build a high-performing, agile, and self-organizing team that delivers stable, scalable, and reliable features and services.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum of 2 years experience in team management, with a strong track record of coaching and mentoring diverse engineering teams.
• Expert-level proficiency in designing and developing high-performance, concurrent applications. Experience using Golang would be a plus.
• Excellent communication skills, with the capability to oversee squad-level priorities, deadlines, and project outcomes.
• Strong understanding of product and business metrics, adept at setting objectives using the OKR framework.
• Demonstrates a balanced approach towards project features and engineering excellence, with a solid product-oriented mindset.
• Background in working with distributed systems, parallel processing, and handling highly complex software applications.
• Have a good appetite for taking calculated risks, demonstrating the ability to weigh options and make strategic decisions under uncertainty.
• Understanding development lifecycle and collaborating with cross-functional and remote teams.
• Curiosity, creative outside-the-box problem solving abilities and an eye for details.