Engineering Manager, WealthTech Platform

Bjak; Petaling Jaya; Hybrid; MYR 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

KIRA is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing engineering team building and scaling products used by millions of users across the region. This role requires a strong technical leader who can guide engineers, make sound architectural choices, and drive products from idea to production.

You will oversee frontend, backend and full-stack delivery, collaborate with product, design, mobile, backend and AI teams, and uphold high standards for reliability and quality while shaping an

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with production systems.
• Experience leading or managing software engineers.
• 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 coaching, performance management and clear expectations.
• 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

People leadership

Architecture & design

Production systems

Cloud infrastructure

API design

Job description

KIRA is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing engineering team building and scaling products used by millions of users across the region. This role requires a strong technical leader who can guide engineers, make sound architectural choices, and drive products from idea to production.

You will oversee frontend, backend and full-stack delivery, collaborate with product, design, mobile, backend and AI teams, and uphold high standards for reliability and quality while shaping an