Engineering Manager - Core Banking (SDE 5)

Kredivo Group; Jakarta Timur; On-site; IDR 536,288,880 - 804,433,321; Full time

Job summary

Kredivo Group in Jakarta Timur is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of experienced engineers in developing core banking products. You will be responsible for driving the strategic roadmap and ensuring the growth of your team through mentorship and technical leadership.

The ideal candidate has over 10 years of experience in backend application management, strong communication skills, and familiarity with agile methodologies. The role provides the opportunity to work in a dynamic environment with cutting-edge technologies.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience with 3+ years in team management.
• Hands-on experience in programming and technical design.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of software engineers in delivering core banking products.
• Drive the development process from planning to release.
• Provide technical leadership and evaluate designs.

Skills

Backend applications development

Team management

Agile methodologies

Communication skills

Time management

Microservices development

Tools

Golang

Python

Redis

MySQL

NoSQL

AWS services

Atlassian stack (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket)

Slack

DataDog

Grafana

Job description

The Core Banking Platform serves as the backbone to Kredivo’s daily operations, encompassing all the essential functions necessary to manage loans, lenders, payments and other financial transactions. The team focuses on building and maintaining strongly consistent, highly performant, resilient, secure and mission critical systems used across Kredivo products in Indonesia and other South-east Asian countries.

About The Job

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of 8-10 experienced, high performing engineers, building real time distributed systems. You will be responsible for defining the strategic roadmap for the team by collaborating with product, business and other cross functional stakeholders. You’ll have full accountability for the growth and development of your team, provided through technical leadership and mentorship.

• Lead a team of software engineers responsible for delivering impactful features across one or multiple core banking products
• Drive the end-to-end development process from planning, design, implementation, testing and release
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with the cross functional teams consisting of product and business stakeholders, engineers and QA in an agile, fast-paced environment
• Provide technical leadership by evaluating technical designs and driving architectural direction for their team
• Proactively monitor, suggest and implement best practices across engineering and operational excellence - observability, reliability, quality, performance, security, production support
• Regularly provide constructive feedback to team members to achieve their performance and development goals
• Actively participate in hiring and improving the onboarding and retention of new engineers

About You

• 10+ years of total experience with 3+ years of experience in managing a team in a fast-growing company, building and maintaining backend applications
• A growth mindset with passion for building things from the ground up, and most importantly, leading by example
• Passionate about coaching and people development
• Experience using an agile iterative software development process with a strong hold on planning and execution
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills focused on improving collaboration, understanding and information sharing across cross functional and distributed teams
• Excellent time management skills to prioritize and focus on value delivering initiatives
• Ability to think strategically and implement processes to lead the engineers towards excellence
• Hands-on experience in a programming, technical design, micro services development and event driven architecture
• Experience with backend technologies - Golang, Python, Redis, MySQL, NoSQL, SQS, Kafka, AWS services etc.
• Experience with tools - Atlassian stack (JIRA, Confluence, bitbucket), Slack, DataDog, Grafana etc.