Lead Engineering Manager

GXBank; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

GXBank in Malaysia seeks a seasoned engineering leader to guide a mid-size team across mobile, web, and backend tech, delivering scalable services and immersive user experiences.

You will partner with cross-functional teams to build the product roadmap, set customer metrics, and design robust experiments while mentoring engineers and raising the bar on testability, availability, security, and code quality.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of engineering experience on mobile or backend technologies.
• 2+ years of management experience leading mid-size teams (up to 10 engineers).
• Experience building and scaling large-scale Internet/mobile applications; startup/scale-up experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers across mobile, web, and backend to deliver scalable services and immersive user experiences.
• Partner with product, design, analytics, and data science to build the product roadmap and robust experiments.
• Own quarterly planning, ensure on-time delivery and rollout of the roadmap.
• Drive engineering initiatives and align with senior leaders to achieve outcomes.
• Set and monitor engineering excellence metrics (testability, availability, security, code quality).

Skills

Team leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Engineering excellence

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering/Information Technology

Job description

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers across different tech stacks (mobile, web, and backend) to deliver highly scalable and available services and immersive experiences for our users.
• Partner with cross-functional leaders across product, design, analytics, and data science to build and execute the product roadmap, set customer focussed metrics, and robust experiment designs.
• Lead the quarterly planning and build a smooth execution plan with the team for securing the delivery of product and engineering roadmap, you are the ultimate owner of the successful delivery and rollout of your roadmap.
• Drive team-wide engineering initiatives by collaborating effectively with senior leaders in the org by employing your mastery of technologies, communicating your ideas effectively, and driving alignment with key stakeholders to create successful outcomes.
• Set the engineering excellence metrics and targets for the team, consistently raise the bar across testability, availability, security, and code quality for your systems and modules.
• Attract and retain talent engineering talent, actively mentor and develop engineering talent in the team and across the Bank group

Requirements

• A degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology or have a similar experience with 8+ years engineering experience on mobile or backend technologies and at least 2+ years of management experience of mid-size teams of up to 10 engineers.
• Significant experience as a successful software development leader in large-scale, highly available Internet and mobile applications. Experience working for a start-up or scale-up is preferred.
• Experience leading high-impact product teams of engineers and driving large-scale projects in collaboration with product, design, and commercial teams, to succeed.
• Possess strong communication skills and can communicate complex technical topics to technical and non-technical audiences effectively.
• A cultural role model with a strong sense of humility and empathy coupled a bias for action and a passionate commitment to engineering excellence.