Manager, Backend Engineering BSD City, Indonesia Regular Engineering & IT 2026.07.24

Traveloka; Indonesia; Hybrid; IDR 900,000,000 - 1,500,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Traveloka is seeking a Manager, Backend Engineering for its Ground Transport engineering team. You will lead a small backend team, remain hands-on for code review, and drive technical direction while developing people leadership skills.

You will own delivery outcomes, set architectural direction, manage on-call incidents, and build a high-performance culture with clear accountability. Join us to shape reliable systems powering travel experiences across Southeast Asia.

Qualifications

• At least 8 years of backend engineering experience with leadership of a small team.
• Proven ability to own delivery end-to-end and set architectural direction.
• Experience designing reliable, scalable backend systems.

Responsibilities

• Own team delivery outcomes: roadmap commitments, quality, and reliability of backend services.
• Set architectural direction and ensure high-quality review standards.
• Own on-call posture, incidents, and post-mortem improvements.
• Foster high-performance culture with clear expectations and accountability.
• Translate roadmap into executable plans and manage scope with evidence.
• Collaborate with product and adjacent engineering leads to align goals.

Skills

Backend engineering

Team leadership

Architecture direction

On-call incident mgmt

AI tooling governance

Education

Computer Science degree

Job description

Join Traveloka and channel your passion into a rewarding career

About Traveloka Traveloka is Southeast Asia’s leading all-in-one travel platform connecting millions globally with trusted, world-class experiences. With over 140 million app downloads and more than 40 million monthly active users, Traveloka stands as one of the most popular travel apps in the region.

Job Description

Job ID: MJ000270

About Traveloka

Traveloka is Southeast Asia's leading travel and lifestyle super-app. We connect tens of millions of travellers across the region with flights, hotels, experiences, financial services, and more — all from a single platform. Since our founding in 2012, we have expanded to eleven markets, processed billions of dollars in transactions, and built one of the most recognised consumer brands in the region.

We move fast because the region demands it. Southeast Asia is young, mobile-first, and growing faster than almost anywhere else on earth. We are not transplanting a Western playbook — we are writing a new one, from scratch, for a market that does not look like anywhere else — and we are calling for people who want to be part of that.

About the Team

Ground Transport Engineering builds the systems that connect the last mile of travel — airport transfers, intercity buses, trains, and car rentals across Southeast Asia. Behind every booking you make is a wide surface area of product types, supply integrations, and real-time availability, and our backend, frontend, and mobile engineers own it end to end. This is a high-growth business where the technical problems are messy, regional, and far from solved.

You will ship to millions of travellers across 11 markets and watch your work move the metric within the week. We run lean, with high accountability and short paths from idea to production — no layers between you and impact. If you want to engineer travel infrastructure that genuinely has no Western blueprint, you will build it here.

About the Job

As a Manager, Backend Engineering on Traveloka's Ground Transport team, you own the delivery and the people of a small backend team — staying hands‑on enough that your direction holds in review, while taking on the first layer of people leadership.

• 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.

Join Us

If you have read this far and felt something click — the problem, the scale, the moment — we would like to hear from you.

We review every application. If your background is a strong fit, you will hear from us within 5 business days.

We are building the kind of company where strong people choose to stay because the work keeps getting bigger and better.

At Traveloka, we firmly believe in equal opportunities for all because diversity drives creativity and excellence. We encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds to apply for opportunities with us. Our hiring decisions are based on qualifications and merit in accordance with a fair and transparent process, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, military service, or any other aspect of diversity. Join us in our mission to transform the travel industry and embrace the values that drive us to innovate and serve customers worldwide.Be advised that Traveloka maintains a structured recruitment process and does not entertain unsolicited resumes from recruiting agencies. Third parties who provide unsolicited resumes of candidate(s) shall waive and forfeit all rights to claim for any placement or referral fees in the event that Traveloka eventually employs such candidate. Hence, we will not assume responsibility for any fees incurred for candidates hired through unrequested resumes. Your adherence to our guidelines is greatly appreciated.