Engineering Lead – Financial Products (Indonesia) - Global Payment

ByteDance; Jakarta Pusat; Sur place; IDR 800 000 000 - 1 200 000 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

ByteDance's Global Payment Tech team powers worldwide payments, wallets, and financial services with scalable, high-concurrency systems across multi-currency markets. You will lead the Indonesia engineering team, drive talent development, and own delivery quality in a fast-growing fintech environment.

The role requires strong backend expertise in distributed systems, architecture design, and collaboration with global teams to balance business needs with reliability, security, and financial

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including leading and managing engineering teams.
• Strong background in large-scale distributed systems, architecture, and backend development.
• Proficiency in Java or Golang and understanding of databases, caching, messaging, and high-availability patterns.
• Proven track record delivering complex engineering projects and collaborating across teams.
• Commitment to engineering quality, production reliability, data consistency, and security.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills with cross-team collaboration.
• Professional working proficiency in English and Bahasa Indonesia

Responsabilités

• Lead and develop the local Indonesia engineering team, owning people management and delivery quality.
• Design and develop scalable financial product solutions in collaboration with global teams.
• Drive architecture decisions balancing scalability, maintainability and reliability.
• Own engineering quality, production stability, and security for financial transactions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across product, risk, compliance, and operations to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Establish and improve engineering practices: design reviews, code reviews, testing, incidents, processes.

Connaissances

Team leadership

Distributed systems

Backend development

Java

Golang

Outils

Java

Golang

Description du poste

Engineering Lead – Financial Products (Indonesia) - Global Payment

Location:

Jakarta

Team:

Technology

Employment Type:

Regular

Job Code:

A186133B

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Responsibilities

The Global Payment Tech team is the core engine powering ByteDance's global payment and financial services, spanning payment acquiring, wallets, financial products, insurance, and foreign exchange for users and merchants worldwide.We span engineering, data, and AI, building high-concurrency, highly available systems across multi-currency, multi-market complexity, and embedding AI into risk control, credit decisioning, and operations automation.You will grow cross-disciplinary expertise at the intersection of payments, finance, and AI.

• - Lead and develop the local engineering team in Indonesia, taking ownership of people management, talent development, hiring, engineering productivity, and delivery quality.
• - Lead the design and development of scalable financial product solutions, supporting business growth and user experience in Indonesia. Collaborate with global engineering teams to build reliable and efficient financial systems.
• - Drive technical architecture design and key technical decisions, balancing business requirements, system scalability, maintainability, reliability, and overall engineering efficiency.
• - Take ownership of engineering quality and production stability. Identify system bottlenecks, resolve complex technical issues, and continuously improve system performance, reliability, security, and financial transaction correctness.
• - Collaborate closely with local business stakeholders, Product, Risk, Compliance, Operations, external partners, and global engineering teams to understand requirements, manage dependencies, and deliver high-quality solutions.
• - Establish and continuously improve engineering practices, including technical design reviews, code reviews, testing, incident management, and development processes. Foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and collaboration.

Minimum Qualifications

• - 7+ years of software engineering experience, including proven experience leading and managing engineering teams, with responsibility for talent development, performance management, and project delivery.
• - Strong technical background in large-scale distributed systems, with solid experience in system architecture, design, and backend development. Proficient in at least one programming language, preferably Java or Golang.
• - Strong understanding of distributed systems, databases, caching, messaging, and high-availability architecture. Demonstrated ability to make sound technical decisions and resolve complex production issues.
• - Proven track record of delivering complex engineering projects and driving collaboration across multiple teams. Strong ownership, execution, and problem-solving capabilities.
• - Strong understanding of engineering quality, production reliability, data consistency, and system security, with the ability to establish and maintain high engineering standards.
• - Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with local and international teams.
• - Professional working proficiency in English and Bahasa Indonesia

Preferred Qualifications

• - Experience in fintech, digital lending, BNPL, banking, payments, or other financial services technology.
• - Experience working with Indonesian financial institutions, local financial infrastructure, or regulatory requirements.
• - Experience managing engineering teams in a multinational technology organization or collaborating with geographically distributed teams.
• - Hands-on experience designing or operating mission-critical financial transaction systems.

Job Information

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