Remote Engineering Manager — AI Payments Platform

BJAK; Indonesia; On-site; IDR 600,000,000 - 900,000,000; Full time

Job summary

BJAK is seeking an engineering manager to lead a high-performing team building and scaling products used by millions across the region. You will drive architecture decisions and own delivery from idea to production while maintaining quality and speed.

This remote, globally distributed role requires strong technical depth across backend, frontend, APIs, and cloud infrastructure, plus exceptional people leadership to coach engineers and align technical work with customer and business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with production systems experience.
• Experience leading or managing software engineers and owning delivery.
• Deep technical depth across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, distributed systems or cloud.
• Ability to make sound architecture and trade-offs balancing speed, scalability and maintainability.
• Track record of taking products from idea through development, launch and production.
• Comfortable reviewing technical designs and debugging production issues.
• Strong people leadership with coaching and performance management.
• Strong product sense and ability to connect engineering decisions to customer and business outcomes.
• Able to work fast with ambiguity, establish priorities and drive teams toward clear outcomes.
• Ownership mentality with responsibility for delivery and incidents.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of engineers across frontend, backend and full stack development.
• Own engineering delivery for major product areas, ensuring the team ships quickly without compromising reliability and technical quality.
• Work closely with product, design, mobile, backend and AI teams to turn ambiguous product problems into clear technical execution.
• Drive technical architecture and engineering decisions across APIs, databases, integrations, infrastructure and customer-facing systems.
• Set engineering standards around code quality, system design, testing, observability, security and production reliability.
• Stay close to the technical work through architecture reviews, code reviews, debugging and critical engineering decisions.
• Develop engineers through regular feedback, coaching, performance management and clear expectations.
• Identify performance gaps early and take ownership of raising the team's engineering and execution bar.
• Improve engineering processes, tooling and automation to help the team move faster and operate at scale.
• Own production outcomes beyond release: monitor systems, resolve incidents, identify root causes and ensure problems do not repeat.
• Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, speed, technical excellence and continuous improvement.

Skills

Strong software engineering background

Engineering leadership

Architecture decisions

Delivery ownership

People leadership

Product sense

Ambiguity management

Cross-functional collaboration

English communication

Tools

Cloud infrastructure

Job description

BJAK is seeking an engineering manager to lead a high-performing team building and scaling products used by millions across the region. You will drive architecture decisions and own delivery from idea to production while maintaining quality and speed.

This remote, globally distributed role requires strong technical depth across backend, frontend, APIs, and cloud infrastructure, plus exceptional people leadership to coach engineers and align technical work with customer and business outcomes.