Software Manager

NSS IT Solution Sdn Bhd; Cyberjaya; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Go Hub Capital Bhd is seeking an engineering leader to drive team execution, culture, and roadmap while contributing technically. You’ll architect a microservice platform on Kubernetes and a monolithic architecture, owning design to production across container-native stacks.

You’ll lead a 6-12 person team, run agile ceremonies, coordinate with product, DevOps, SRE, and security, and push for code quality, observability, and reliable operations.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5-8+ years of experience in full-stack software engineering, with at least 2 years of experience leading or managing engineering teams.
• Strong experience with databases and data platforms, including PostgreSQL, MSSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Cosmos DB, Firebase, and Supabase.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including workloads, networking, RBAC, resource management and limits, Docker image authoring, multi-stage builds, and image layer optimisation.
• Experience designing and managing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Tekton.
• Solid understanding of API architecture and design patterns, including GraphQL, REST, and gRPC, as well as API versioning best practices.
• Experience with asynchronous messaging and event-driven architectures using Kafka, AWS SQS/SNS, or Azure Service Bus/Event Hub.
• Production-level experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Datadog, New Relic, or Grafana.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of 6-12 engineers; own hiring, onboarding, performance, and career development.
• Run agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives, and cross-team coordination.
• Collaborate with product, DevOps, SRE, and security stakeholders to align on roadmap priorities.
• Translate complex technical trade-offs into clear recommendations for non-technical leadership.
• Foster a culture of code quality, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Define and track team-level KPIs: deployment frequency, MTTR, cycle time, test coverage.
• Actively write, review, and merge production-grade code in the team's primary language(s).
• Design and document microservice contracts, API schemas, and event interfaces.
• Author and review Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, and resource configurations.
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead postmortems for critical incidents.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipeline templates used across the team's services.
• Instrument services with distributed tracing, metrics, and structured logging (OpenTelemetry stack).
• Drive security-by-default practices: container image scanning, RBAC, secret management, network policies.
• Evaluate and prototype new tooling, before broader rollout.

Skills

Leadership

Kubernetes

CI/CD

API design

Distributed tracing

On-call

Team mentoring

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Tekton

Job description

We are looking for an engineering leader who can do both: drive team execution, culture, and roadmap while remaining a credible technical contributor. You'll architect a microservice platform, unblock engineers at the code level, and set the technical bar through example. You'll own delivery from design to production across container-native platforms running on Kubernetes and a monolithic architecture.

What you'll do - leadership

Lead and grow a team of 6-12 engineers; own hiring, onboarding, performance, and career development

Run agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives, and cross-team coordination

Collaborate with product, DevOps, SRE, and security stakeholders to align on roadmap priorities

Translate complex technical trade-offs into clear recommendations for non-technical leadership

Foster a culture of code quality, operational excellence, and continuous improvement

Define and track team-level KPIs: deployment frequency, MTTR, cycle time, test coverage

What you'll do - hands-on technical

Actively write, review, and merge production-grade code in the team's primary language(s)

Design and document microservice contracts, API schemas, and event interfaces

Author and review Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, and resource configurations

Participate in on-call rotations and lead postmortems for critical incidents

Build and maintain CI/CD pipeline templates used across the team's services

Instrument services with distributed tracing, metrics, and structured logging (OpenTelemetry stack)

Drive security-by-default practices: container image scanning, RBAC, secret management, network policies

Evaluate and prototype new tooling, before broader rollout

Requirement

Minimum 5-8+ years of experience in full-stack software engineering, with at least 2 years of experience leading or managing engineering teams.

Strong experience with databases and data platforms, including PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL), MongoDB, Redis, Cosmos DB, Firebase, and Supabase.

Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including workloads, networking, RBAC, resource management and limits, Docker image authoring, multi-stage builds, and image layer optimisation.

Experience designing and managing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Tekton.

Solid understanding of API architecture and design patterns, including GraphQL, REST, and gRPC, as well as API versioning best practices.

Experience with asynchronous messaging and event-driven architectures using Kafka, AWS SQS/SNS, or Azure Service Bus/Event Hub.

Production-level experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure.

Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Datadog, New Relic, or Grafana.

Information Technology Services 101-1,000 employees

Go Hub Capital Bhd is a principal company overseeing a diverse portfolio of subsidiaries specializing in technology solutions.

Its subsidiaries include NSS IT Solution Sdn Bhd, a leader in innovative IT services; NSS IT Philippines Sdn Bhd, which extends NSS IT’s expertise to the Philippine market; and TCT Apps Solution Sdn Bhd, a developer of cutting-edge application solutions.

In 2024, Go Hub Capital Bhd proudly listed on Bursa Malaysia in the ACE Market, further solidifying its commitment to delivering exceptional solutions and services across Malaysia, driving growth, and fostering innovation in the digital landscape.

Go Hub Capital Bhd is a principal company overseeing a diverse portfolio of subsidiaries specializing in technology solutions.

Its subsidiaries include NSS IT Solution Sdn Bhd, a leader in innovative IT services; NSS IT Philippines Sdn Bhd, which extends NSS IT’s expertise to the Philippine market; and TCT Apps Solution Sdn Bhd, a developer of cutting-edge application solutions.

In 2024, Go Hub Capital Bhd proudly listed on Bursa Malaysia in the ACE Market, further solidifying its commitment to delivering exceptional solutions and services across Malaysia, driving growth, and fostering innovation in the digital landscape.