Remote Engineering Manager — Scale FinTech for Millions

MateCareer; Bangkok; On-site; IDR 2,497,770,000 - 3,746,655,000; Full time

Job summary

KIRA is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing engineering team building scalable products used by millions across the region. You will oversee frontend, backend and full‑stack delivery, set technical standards, and drive architecture decisions to deliver reliable, customer‑focused outcomes.

You will collaborate with product, design, mobile, backend and AI teams, ensuring fast, quality shipping while maintaining technical excellence and strong leadership across a remote,

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with experience building and shipping real production systems.
• Experience leading or managing software engineers and owning engineering delivery.
• Strong technical depth across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.
• Able to make sound architecture and technical trade-offs while balancing speed, scalability and maintainability.
• Strong track record of taking products or systems from idea through development, launch and production.
• Comfortable reviewing technical designs, challenging engineering decisions and debugging complex production issues.
• Strong people leadership with the ability to coach engineers, manage performance and build high-performing teams.
• 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.
• Strong ownership mentality — when something breaks or delivery slips, you take responsibility for getting it back on track.

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

Software engineering

Engineering leadership

Backend development

Frontend development

APIs

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Code review

Performance optimization

Job description

KIRA is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing engineering team building scalable products used by millions across the region. You will oversee frontend, backend and full‑stack delivery, set technical standards, and drive architecture decisions to deliver reliable, customer‑focused outcomes.

You will collaborate with product, design, mobile, backend and AI teams, ensuring fast, quality shipping while maintaining technical excellence and strong leadership across a remote,