Software Engineering Manager - Jakarta Department Tech Employment Type

Stockbit; Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta; On-site; IDR 900,000,000 - 1,800,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Stockbit is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and grow our software development team in Jakarta. You will oversee design and development of applications, directing engineers to adopt best practices and deliver high‑quality software.

Lead architecture discussions, mentor teammates, and ensure scalable, secure systems while maintaining a healthy pace and strong collaboration with product managers and other teams. A passion for cutting‑edge tech and continuous learning is essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of experience with 2–3 years in a leadership role as an engineering manager.
• Strong backend knowledge in Go, Java or Python.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience building, mentoring and supporting a high‑performing team.
• Deep knowledge of modern software architecture that is scalable, resilient and secure.
• Experience managing distributed systems.
• Familiarity with stock trading or experience as a user (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Provide mentorship and technical direction to the team.
• Build and maintain a strong team of developers delivering solid results.
• Analyze issues in workflow and collaboration with solutions.
• Learn contextual breadth and scope in the product domain.
• Encourage best practices and methodologies for high quality outputs.
• Develop partnerships with engineers and product managers to translate requirements.
• Monitor pace to avoid burnout while sustaining progress.
• Participate in cross‑team collaboration and share learnings.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

Leadership

Communication

Distributed systems

Software architecture

Mentoring

Job description

We're currently looking for a top-notch Software Engineering Manager to grow our software development team. Your primary focus will be on managing and overseeing the design and development of our software applications. Directs the work of engineers to ensure the best practices around software development. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is important. We're looking for someone who will constantly challenge themselves to be on the cutting-edge of new technology and grow the team's knowledge of best practices.

As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible to:

• Provide mentorship and technical direction to your team members especially in architecting and building systems for our product.
• Build & maintain a strong team of developers that consistently deliver solid results.
• Analyze issues in the team’s workflow and collaboration along with potential solutions that can answer these challenges.
• Learn contextual breadth and scope in your product domain.
• Encourage the use of best practices and methodologies in software development to create high quality outputs.
• Develop partnerships with engineers and product managers to better understand and implement product requirements.
• Monitor and adapt the team's pace to instill a sense of urgency for progress while avoiding burnout.
• Actively participate in cross-team collaboration and exchange team learnings.

Requirements

• We are looking for engineers with the requisite skills and knowledge to fulfill the demands of this position, including a minimum of 7 years of experience and 2-3 years in a leadership role, particularly as an engineering manager.
• Strong backend knowledge in Go, Java or Python programming languages
• Excellent communication skills
• Experienced in building, managing, mentoring, and supporting a team of high-performing engineers
• Deep knowledge of how to build a modern software architecture that is well-structured, scalable, resilient, secure, performant & and extendible. This often includes the knowledge of how an application would interact with its supporting infrastructure.
• Have experience in managing distributed systems.
• Familiarity with stock trading or experience as a user (preferred).