Engineering Manager - Philippines - Bjak

Polluxa, Inc.; Philippines; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Polluxa, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team responsible for building and scaling regional products used by millions. You will guide engineers across frontend, backend and full stack, and own delivery while ensuring reliability and quality.

You will collaborate with product, design, mobile, backend and AI teams to turn ambiguous problems into clear technical execution and set high standards for code quality, security and production reliability.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with production systems experience.
• Experience leading software engineers and owning engineering delivery.
• Ability to balance speed, scalability, and maintainability in system design.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of engineers across frontend, backend and full stack development.
• Own engineering delivery for major product areas, ensuring fast shipping with reliability and quality.
• Collaborate with product, design, mobile, backend and AI teams to translate product problems into technical execution.
• Drive 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 reliability.
• Stay involved with architecture reviews, code reviews, debugging and critical engineering decisions.
• Develop engineers through feedback, coaching, and clear expectations.
• Identify performance gaps and raise the team's engineering bar.
• Improve processes, tooling and automation to move faster at scale.
• Own production outcomes post-release: monitor, incidents, root causes, prevention.
• Foster a culture of ownership, speed, technical excellence and continuous improvement.

Skills

People leadership

Backend & frontend

APIs & databases

Cloud infrastructure

Production reliability

Code quality

Debugging

Architecture trade-offs

Job description

The Role

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing engineering team building and scaling products used by millions of users across the region.

This role is for a strong technical leader who can lead engineers, make sound architecture and engineering decisions, and drive products and systems from idea to production. You will be responsible for both the quality of the engineering team and the quality and speed of what the team ships.

You should be comfortable operating across people, product and technology — setting a high engineering bar while keeping the team focused on delivering real customer and business outcomes.

What You'll Own

• 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.

What We're Looking For

• Strong software engineering background with experience building and shipping real production systems.
• Experience leading or managing software engineers and owning engineering delivery.
• 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 the ability to coach engineers, manage performance and build high-performing teams.