Software Engineering Manager

Coda; Metro Manila; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Coda is a global growth engine for commerce with 600+ people across 23 locations and a culture that values ownership and collaboration. Engineering leadership roles here focus on high-volume payments and e-commerce, building robust distributed systems on AWS and modern IaC practices, with a strong emphasis on servant leadership and ownership.

As an Engineering Manager, you will guide teams, shape the technology roadmap, and partner with Product to deliver scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer and delivering hard technical problems.
• 2+ years in a technical lead, manager, or architect role.
• Strong communication skills in English, written and verbal.
• Experience in agile environments and driving team productivity.
• Solid architectural skills and ability to guide system design.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 6 to 12 software engineers.
• Own one or more key systems and drive a technical roadmap.
• Collaborate with Product to align goals at OKR and daily levels.
• Own execution of product and technical goals for your domain.
• Coach team members and promote continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with recruiting to attract top engineering talent.

Skills

Software engineering

Team leadership

Agile methodology

Data technologies

Architectural design

Code review

Data analysis

Cloud services (AWS)

SQL / NoSQL

Tools

AWS

Job description

Why Coda

Coda is a global growth engine for commerce, connecting people, digital products, and payments through trusted monetization and distribution solutions.

With 600+ people from 57 nationalities across 23 locations, we’re a truly global team headquartered in Singapore, with offices in Amsterdam, Dubai, Bristol, Shanghai, Eindhoven, and across Southeast Asia.

We power global commerce through a dual model. Our B2B solutions, Codapay, Coda Webstore, Coda Links, Coda Distribution, and Giftcloud, enable publishers and brands to monetize and distribute digital content globally. On the consumer side, we operate a portfolio of trusted storefronts including Codashop, Recharge.com, Startselect.com, and mobiletopup.co.uk, that give customers secure and easy access to game top-ups, digital credits, vouchers, gift cards and prepaid products in over 70 markets.

Our culture is built on respect, ownership, and collaboration. We move fast, support each other, and celebrate wins together.

If you’re looking to grow your career and make a real impact in a global team, Coda is the place for you.

Engineering - Technology at Coda

At Coda, our goal is to make our mark in the high-volume payments and e-commerce industry – and we are levelling up fast. To stay in stride with the dynamic environment, we focus on building robust, distributed systems that can effortlessly handle traffic spikes. Moreover, our ambitious roadmap necessitates innovative tools to streamline the development lifecycle and sustain our swift momentum.

We place great value on balancing teamwork with individual autonomy, allowing our teams to make the most of modern cloud infrastructure. Our tech stack is solidly based on AWS cloud, with a keen interest in infrastructure-as-code and the creation of new microservices via the Quarkus framework. Our toolbox includes JSON and GRPC, multiple data storage integrations, queues, OpenTelemetry, and more.

But what truly defines us? It's our incredible team. We hire top talent and give them the freedom to push Coda's technology and products to exciting new levels. We believe that genius can strike anywhere, so we promote ownership and cultivate a servant leadership culture that lets engineers take the reins on features.

The Opportunity

Engineering management roles are critical to the success of Coda. In addition to being technically excellent, our managers need to exhibit strong leadership and superb people management skills. We give our managers an extreme amount of autonomy and responsibility, so it’s crucial that they are strong examples of Coda’s top-notch culture.

What you’ll do

• Lead a team of 6 to 12 software engineers
• Take ownership of one or more key systems at Coda, working with your team to constantly drive our technology forward and defining an aggressive technology roadmap
• Work closely with the Product team to ensure goals and work is clearly defined, at both the OKR and day-to-day levels
• Own the execution of product and technical goals
• Coach team members using continuous improvement techniques, resulting in a high-performance team
• Collaborate with the recruiting team to attract strong engineering talent

What you’ll bring

• Passion for building great products and software
• Exemplary communication skills, both written and oral
• Experience in an agile environment, with the ability to analyze and optimize team productivity
• 5+ years of experience as a successful software engineer working on hard problems
• 2+ years as a technical lead, manager, architect, or other leadership position
• Strong experience with data technologies (RDBMS, NoSQL, message queues, etc.)
• The ability to query, analyze, and work with data to drive decision making
• Expert architectural skills
• The ability to write and review code as necessary
• Able to quickly learn or evaluate new technologies

Bonus if you have

• Experience with extremely high scale, distributed systems
• Deep knowledge of security or cryptography
• Machine learning and big data knowledge
• Experience building systems in the AWS cloud

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, embracing the unique qualities of every individual, regardless of gender, race, age, religion, disability, or other local protected classes. Our goal is to foster an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcome and valued.