Manager, Backend Engineering

PT Trinusa Travelindo; Jakarta Utara; On-site; IDR 420,000,000 - 720,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Traveloka in Jakarta seeks a seasoned Senior Backend Engineering Lead to own the team’s delivery outcomes—architecture, on-call posture, and reliability of our accommodation backend services.

You will set technical direction, review standards, and drive a high-performance culture, partnering with product and other engineering leads to translate business goals into a credible delivery plan while guiding responsible AI usage.

Qualifications

• At least 8 years in backend engineering with leadership of a small team.
• Led delivery of backend projects with a small team and sequenced work.
• Unblocked teammates and owned delivery outcomes.
• Own end-to-end delivery and identify risks early.
• Maintain quality under tight deadlines and scale system design decisions.
• Experience setting architectural direction and balancing latency, consistency, and cost.

Responsibilities

• Own your team's delivery outcomes — roadmap commitments, quality, and reliability of the accommodation backend services you steward.
• Set the architectural direction for the team's work and hold the quality bar through hands-on review.
• Own the on-call and incident posture of your services, turning incidents into lasting reliability improvements, and run the team's engineering practice — review standards, on-call health, incident follow-through.
• Build a high-performance team culture with clear expectations, fast feedback loops, and genuine accountability for results.
• Translate roadmap into execution with clear ownership, and represent the team's priorities and push back on scope with evidence.
• Partner with product and adjacent engineering leads to translate domain business goals into a credible, sequenced delivery plan.
• Set how the team uses AI tools and hold the line on responsible, validated use.

Skills

Backend engineering

Team leadership

Architectural direction

On-call management

Code review

AI tooling

Stakeholder comm

Problem solving

Education

Computer Science degree

Job description

• Own your team's delivery outcomes — roadmap commitments, quality, and reliability of the accommodation backend services you steward
• Set the architectural direction for the team's work and hold the quality bar through hands-on review
• Own the on-call and incident posture of your services, turning incidents into lasting reliability improvements, and run the team's engineering practice — review standards, on-call health, incident follow-through — without becoming the bottleneck
• Build a high-performance team culture with clear expectations, fast feedback loops, and genuine accountability for results
• Translate roadmap into execution with clear ownership, and represent the team's priorities and push back on scope with evidence
• Partner with product and adjacent engineering leads to translate domain business goals into a credible, sequenced delivery plan
• Set how the team uses AI tools and hold the line on responsible, validated use

Deskripsi Pekerjaan

Job Responsibilties

• Own your team's delivery outcomes — roadmap commitments, quality, and reliability of the accommodation backend services you steward
• Set the architectural direction for the team's work and hold the quality bar through hands-on review
• Own the on-call and incident posture of your services, turning incidents into lasting reliability improvements, and run the team's engineering practice — review standards, on-call health, incident follow-through — without becoming the bottleneck
• Build a high-performance team culture with clear expectations, fast feedback loops, and genuine accountability for results
• Translate roadmap into execution with clear ownership, and represent the team's priorities and push back on scope with evidence
• Partner with product and adjacent engineering leads to translate domain business goals into a credible, sequenced delivery plan
• Set how the team uses AI tools and hold the line on responsible, validated use

Job Requirements

• You have at least 8 years of backend engineering, including leading a small team — and you still write and review enough code that your team trusts your technical judgment.
• You have led the delivery of a backend project through a small team — you broke the work down, you sequenced it.
• You unblocked people, and you were accountable for it landing.
• You can own the delivery of a team's commitments end-to-end: you hold the plan, you see the risks early.
• You keep quality from slipping when the deadline tightens.
• You design and review at the system level — you can set the architectural direction for your team's services.
• You make the consistency, latency, and cost tradeoffs with them.
• You grow the engineers around you: you give specific, honest feedback, you create room for people to stretch, and you have helped someone level up because of how you coached them.
• You have a degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent depth from real-world engineering.
• You handle the first layer of people responsibility: regular 1:1s, goal-setting.
• You surface performance or growth conversations honestly rather than letting them drift.
• You set how your team uses AI tools in its workflow, and you can judge where they speed delivery and where they introduce risk worth guarding against.
• You communicate clearly with product and adjacent teams, and you can represent your team's priorities and push back on scope with evidence.

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Traveloka (traveloka.com) is a tech startup based in Jakarta. We aim to revolutionize Indonesian travel marketplace and make it more accessible to travelers across the country. Since it is a mammoth of a task, we'd love to have talented people from diverse backgrounds who can help us achieve our mission. We are committed to building a dynamic workplace where people truly enjoy their work and feel that they can really have an impact.

Traveloka (traveloka.com) is a tech startup based in Jakarta. We aim to revolutionize Indonesian travel marketplace and make it more accessible to travelers across the country. Since it is a mammoth of a task, we'd love to have talented people from diverse backgrounds who can help us achieve our mission. We are committed to building a dynamic workplace where people truly enjoy their work and feel that they can really have an impact.

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