Engineering / Site Lead (Jakarta SCBD)

Second Talent; Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta; On-site; IDR 200.000.000 - 300.000.000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking an Engineering / Site Lead for its first offshore engineering hub in Jakarta. The role involves providing technical leadership while managing a cross-functional team, liaising with Sydney stakeholders, and ensuring best practices in cloud-based development. Candidates should have significant experience in SaaS on public cloud platforms and strong programming skills.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years building SaaS on public cloud platforms.
• 2+ years in a player‐coach or team‐lead capacity.
• Excellent spoken and written English.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and architecture oversight.
• Run agile ceremonies and manage sprint delivery.
• Hire, mentor, and develop a cross‐functional squad.

Skills

Technical leadership

Modern programming languages

Infrastructure-as-code

CI/CD tooling

Cloud-cost-optimisation

Job description

Engineering / Site Lead (Jakarta SCBD)

Reports to: CEO and COO (Sydney)

Remuneration: Rp 30,000,000 - 38,000,000 per month gross

Mission

Launch and grow Refracts first offshore engineering hub, acting as both player‐coach and culturalchampion.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and architecture oversight across front‐end, back‐end, andinfrastructure.

• Run agile ceremonies, manage sprint delivery, and own release cadence.

• Hire, mentor, and develop a cross‐functional squad.

• Liaise with Sydney stakeholders across time‐zones.

• Steward reliability, security, and cost‐efficiency using best‐practice platform tooling.

Requirements

• 8-10 years building SaaS on public cloud platforms.

• 2+ years in a player‐coach or team‐lead capacity.

• Strong experience with modern programming languages (e.g., TypeScript, Go, Python) and withcontainer‐orchestration, infrastructure‐as‐code, and CI/CD tooling.
• Excellent spoken and written English; comfortable in client‐facing architecture sessions.
• Bonus: Proven cloud‐cost‐optimisation achievements; experience with compliance audits (SOC 2 / ISO 27001).