Remote VP of Engineering — Fintech Scale & Architecture

First Circle; Jakarta Pusat; Remote; IDR 900,000,000 - 1,400,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Macbooks

Health insurance

Training budget

Job summary

First Circle, Jakarta-based SME fintech neobank, seeks a hands-on VP of Engineering to lead 25+ engineers and scale to 100+. You will own end-to-end architecture, delivery velocity, and the technical roadmap across payments, lending, cards and core banking.

You will ensure regulatory and security compliance, manage Azure-based platform costs, and drive data strategy while hiring top engineering leaders and building a high-performance culture. Remote-ready with travel flexibility.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software engineering, including 4+ leading multiple teams through significant growth.
• Deep experience building financial technology such as payments, lending, cards or core banking.
• A track record of solving hard technical problems personally, not only through others.
• A track record of hiring and retaining excellent engineers.
• Able to explain technical complexity clearly to executives, the board and regulators.
• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Team and hiring. Scale engineering from 25+ to 100+, including org design, hiring bar, career paths and performance frameworks.
• Architecture. Set domain boundaries, data modelling standards and integration patterns across our microservices.
• Delivery. Improve velocity and quality, measured by DORA metrics, and balance feature work against technical debt.
• Regulation and security. Own the technical side of regulatory and licensing requirements across our markets, including technology risk, outsourcing and data rules, as well as PCI-DSS.
• Platform and data. Own our Azure platform, cloud cost, data infrastructure and our AI-assisted engineering strategy.
• External relationships. Hold the technical relationship with key partners, such as issuer processors and core banking providers. Represent engineering to the board, investors and regulators.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Software architecture

Azure

Fintech

Regulatory compliance

Communication with executives

Hiring

System design

Data modelling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering / Mathematics

Tools

Azure Platform

Job description

First Circle, Jakarta-based SME fintech neobank, seeks a hands-on VP of Engineering to lead 25+ engineers and scale to 100+. You will own end-to-end architecture, delivery velocity, and the technical roadmap across payments, lending, cards and core banking.

You will ensure regulatory and security compliance, manage Azure-based platform costs, and drive data strategy while hiring top engineering leaders and building a high-performance culture. Remote-ready with travel flexibility.