Head of Engineering & AI Transformation

Angkas; Makati; Hybrid; PHP 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free meals

Gym access

Job summary

Angkas is seeking a Head of Engineering to lead our multi-team engineering org across customer and driver apps, backend platforms, and operations tools. You will spearhead the transition to an AI-native organization while ensuring reliability of mission-critical services and driving scalable, reusable platform architecture.

You will partner with Product to shape features, hire and develop talent, and set measurable goals.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering.
• 3+ years leading multi-team engineering orgs with OKRs and performance management.
• Experience with incident response in high-traffic systems and SRE practices.
• Security by design: secure coding and data privacy.
• Ability to communicate complex systems to executives and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Keep mission-critical services reliable and scalable with high availability and disaster recovery.
• Lead incidents end to end; coordinate RCAs and preventative measures.
• Grow the engineering org through hiring and skill development; foster ownership and clear metrics.
• Deliver roadmap with Product; ensure scalable, reusable platform design and timely releases.
• Set the technical bar with architecture reviews and senior direction across squads.
• Improve velocity and stability by measuring delivery metrics and removing bottlenecks.
• Drive the shift to AI-native engineering and use AI to improve developer experience.

Skills

Leadership

Multi-team Leadership

Incident response

SRE mindset

Security by design

Cloud cost optimization

DevOps / CI/CD

Communication skills

Hands-on coding

AI adoption

Stakeholder alignment

Tools

Kubernetes

GCP

Kafka

Redis

PostgreSQL

Go

Flutter

React

Job description

Angkas is seeking a Head of Engineering to lead our multi-team engineering org across customer and driver apps, backend platforms, and operations tools. You will spearhead the transition to an AI-native organization while ensuring reliability of mission-critical services and driving scalable, reusable platform architecture.

You will partner with Product to shape features, hire and develop talent, and set measurable goals.