Vice President of Engineering

OrgScale Recruitment; Malaysia; On-site; MYR 240,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

OrgScale Recruitment seeks an experienced Chief Technology Leader to own the technical vision across platforms and products. You will set engineering standards, drive architecture, and mentor the engineering leadership team.

You will balance speed with quality and scalability, own uptime and incident response, align tech with business goals, and advocate for continuous improvement and adoption of effective new technologies.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in engineering with at least 3 years in a technical leadership role.
• Hands-on background – has built and shipped products, not just managed engineers.
• Proven experience scaling engineering teams and platforms in a fast-moving environment.
• Strong architecture knowledge across web, mobile, backend, and infrastructure.
• Able to bridge technical and business conversations – translates complexity into clarity.
• High standards – sets the bar and holds the team to it.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical vision and architecture across all platforms and products.
• Set and maintain engineering standards - code quality, security, scalability, and reliability.
• Lead and develop the engineering leadership team.
• Drive technical decisions that balance speed, quality, and long-term scalability.
• Own platform uptime, infrastructure, and incident response standards.
• Align engineering capacity and priorities with product and business goals.
• Identify and resolve technical debt, risks, and bottlenecks before they become blockers.
• Build a high-performance engineering culture - high standards, fast delivery, continuous learning.
• Evaluate and adopt new technologies that improve capability or efficiency.
• Represent technical strategy and risks to the executive team.

Skills

Technical leadership

Architectural vision

Stakeholder communication

Team scaling

Incident management

Engineering standards

Job description

• Own the technical vision and architecture across all platforms and products
• Set and maintain engineering standards - code quality, security, scalability, and reliability
• Lead and develop the engineering leadership team
• Drive technical decisions that balance speed, quality, and long-term scalability
• Own platform uptime, infrastructure, and incident response standards
• Align engineering capacity and priorities with product and business goals
• Identify and resolve technical debt, risks, and bottlenecks before they become blockers
• Build a high-performance engineering culture - high standards, fast delivery, continuous learning
• Evaluate and adopt new technologies that improve capability or efficiency
• Represent technical strategy and risks to the executive team

Requirements

• 10+ years in engineering, with at least 3 years in a technical leadership role
• Hands‑on background - has built and shipped products, not just managed engineers
• Proven experience scaling engineering teams and platforms in a fast‑moving environment
• Strong architecture knowledge across web, mobile, backend, and infrastructure
• Able to bridge technical and business conversations - translates complexity into clarity
• High standards - sets the bar and holds the team to it