Engineering Manager - Internal Tools (SDE 5)

Kredivo Group; Jakarta Pusat; On-site; IDR 350,000,000 - 800,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Kredivo Group is seeking a Head of Backend Engineering to lead a team delivering features across one or more core banking products. You will drive end-to-end development from planning through release, collaborating with product, business, engineers, and QA in an agile environment.

You will provide technical leadership, guide architectural direction, and promote best practices across observability, reliability, quality, and security while actively participating in hiring and onboarding of new

Qualifications

• 8-10 years total experience with 1+ year of experience in managing a team in a fast-growing company, building and maintaining backend applications.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of software engineers responsible for delivering features across one or multiple core banking products.
• Drive the end-to-end development process from planning, design, implementation, testing and release.
• Collaborate with product, business stakeholders, engineers and QA in an agile environment.
• Provide technical leadership by evaluating designs and driving architectural direction.
• Promote observability, reliability, quality, performance, security and production support.
• Give constructive feedback to team members to support development goals.
• Participate in hiring and onboarding to improve retention of new engineers.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Agile

Communication

Strategic thinking

Coaching

Tools

Golang

Python

Redis

MySQL

NoSQL

SQS

Kafka

AWS services

Job description

About the Job:

• 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:

• 8-10 years of total experience with 1+ year 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.