Lead Software Engineer

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

Job summary

A leading tech company in Jakarta is seeking an experienced engineering leader to mentor a team of engineers, manage projects, and contribute to the development process. The role requires strong coding skills, preferably in Java or NodeJS, and at least 5 years of experience in a tech-oriented environment. Responsibilities include driving project timelines, team motivation, and fostering engineering talent to ensure high-quality software delivery.

Qualifications

• Formal degree in Computer Science preferred, but skills and experience valued.
• Strong problem-solving and coding skills in Java/NodeJS.
• Experience with RDBMS technologies like PostgreSQL/MySQL.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor engineers to develop their skills.
• Work with product manager to set feature specs and deadlines.
• Ensure team productivity and motivation.

Skills

Problem solving

Software engineering coding skills in Java/NodeJS

Familiarity with PostgreSQL/MySQL

Version control with Git

Understanding of internet technologies

Experience in building scalable web services

Mentorship and leadership skills

Education

Formal degree in Computer Science

Tools

GitHub

Job description

• Lead and mentor team of engineers to develop their skills and grow their careers at Indodana. Responsible for managing, growing your team as well as your team member's promotions, demotions, hiring, firing, etc.
• Understand Indodana business and improve the business with the help of your engineering team
• Ensure that your team is happy, motivated and productive at Indodana.
• Work together with product manager to set the feature specs and set the target deadline. Drive the projects so you can meet the deadline with your team
• Work with your team to build features, to maintain old code, improve and clean the code that your team owns.
• Contribute to design decision and review each other's code
• Make sure the code that your team owns will be available 24/7 and you're willing to troubleshoot and maintain the services that your team owns
• Hire and help the company find new engineering talent

Qualifications

• A formal degree in Computer Science is preferred, but candidates with demonstrable skills and experience are equally valued
• Strong problem solving & software engineering coding skills preferably, but not limited to, Java/NodeJS
• Familiarity with RDBMS technology, but not limited to, PostgreSQL/MySQL
• Experience in version control (Git) and familiarity with development collaboration tools (GitHub)
• High level understanding on how the internet works DNS, IP, Server-client interaction, etc)
• Experience building scalable web services
• Proven record of good mentorship and leadership in delivering high quality projects
• At least 5 years experience working in a good tech oriented company (or if you don't have it, you can prove to us that you can gain the respect from a team of smart engineers and you can lead them to greatness)