Director of Engineering

getgo technologies pte. ltd.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

GetGo Technologies in Singapore seeks a Director of Engineering to lead the engineering organisation and drive a scalable, reliable technical roadmap across mobile, web, backend, and platform teams.

You will build a high-performance organisation, establish best-practice delivery, quality, and security, and partner with Product and Operations to deliver impactful mobility solutions at scale in a fast-growing market.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with leadership roles.
• Proven track record improving delivery performance and architecture.
• Strong operating, commercial, and cost judgement.
• Excellent communication and influence across senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Set and execute the Engineering strategy with a 12-month roadmap spanning delivery, architecture, platform evolution, quality, reliability, and security.
• Own engineering performance, capacity planning, and delivery practices.
• Build a high-performing Engineering organisation with cross-functional teams.
• Guide evolution of technology architecture balancing near-term delivery and debt remediation.
• Elevate quality, observability, and release controls across the lifecycle.
• Manage Engineering investments, cost efficiency, and partner alignment.
• Apply AI across planning, development, testing, and operations with oversight.
• Lead as a cross-functional partner with Product, Design, Data, and Operations.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Delivery and execution

Architectural judgment

Strategic planning

AI / automation in engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

About This Role

At GetGo, our vision is to build a world where everyone can move around freely and sustainably. As we continue to expand our geographic reach and champion sustainability, we are looking for those ready to join us on a ride in creating a meaningful future of mobility.

The Director of Engineering is responsible for leading GetGo's Engineering organisation and executing the technical and organisational roadmap required for reliable delivery and scalable growth. Reporting to the Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO), you will lead Engineering across mobile, web, backend, quality engineering, and platform or infrastructure. You will strengthen the operating model, architecture, quality, and capabilities needed to support GetGo's products, operations, and mobility mission.

How You Will Make An Impact

• Set and execute the Engineering strategy, translating company priorities into a measurable 12-month roadmap spanning delivery capability, architecture, platform evolution, quality, reliability, security, and technical investment, while contributing to longer-term Product and Technology direction.
• Own Engineering performance and execution, establishing the operating model, capacity planning, delivery practices, and health metrics needed to make commitments transparent, outcomes predictable, and trade-offs explicit.
• Build a high-performing Engineering organisation, developing strong managers and technical leaders and building flexible teams across mobile, web, backend, quality engineering, and platform or infrastructure, with stronger cross-platform, full-stack, and end-to-end ownership.
• Guide the evolution of GetGo's technology architecture, defining and sequencing the technical investments required to balance near-term roadmap delivery with the deliberate remediation of technical debt and development of extensible shared services and platforms that can support new products, operating models, and markets.
• Elevate quality, reliability, and operational resilience, embedding quality throughout the software-development lifecycle through effective test automation, production-like environments, observability, release controls, incident management, and continuous improvement.
• Manage Engineering investment and cost efficiency, making disciplined build-buy-partner recommendations and ensuring that people, platforms, infrastructure, tools, and vendors are aligned to the highest-value business and technical outcomes.
• Make AI a systemic Engineering capability, applying AI and automation across planning, development, testing, review, documentation, and operations to improve productivity and quality, with clear human oversight, security controls, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead as a cross-functional partner, working closely with Product, Design, Data, Operations, and other business leaders to resolve complex trade-offs, surface risks early, and connect Engineering decisions to customer, operational, and commercial outcomes.
  

What Makes You A Great Fit

• Experienced Engineering leader: 10+ years in software engineering, including at least five years in Engineering leadership and experience leading managers and senior technical leaders across mobile, web, backend, quality engineering, and platform or infrastructure.
• Proven transformation experience: A track record of materially improving an Engineering organisation's delivery performance, quality, capability, architecture, or cost, with clear evidence of the starting point, interventions, and measurable results.
• Strong operating and commercial judgement: The ability to balance roadmap delivery, technical investment, reliability, talent, and cost without optimising any one dimension in isolation.
• Deep technical and architectural judgement: Sufficient breadth to challenge decisions across modern application, service, cloud, testing, and platform architectures and to determine when specialist expertise is required.
• Applied AI competence: Personal fluency and experience responsibly applying AI and automation across Engineering processes to improve velocity, quality, decision-making, or cost.
• Experience in operationally complex technology environments: Experience in a scaling technology company is required; exposure to mobility, logistics, marketplaces, fintech, IoT, or another reliability-sensitive consumer business is advantageous.
• Strong communication and influence: The ability to make technical dependencies and trade-offs clear, communicate difficult news early, and build alignment across leaders with different objectives.
• A low-ego builder of leaders and teams: Strategic thinking combined with operational follow-through, high standards, curiosity, empathy, and a commitment to developing people and organisational capability.
• Strong personal alignment with our GetGo Values:
  Driven by Purpose
  Stay Curious and Humble
  Collaborate with Empathy
  Make it Better
  Get It Going!
  

About GetGo Technologies

GetGo Technologies is a Singapore headquartered technology-enabled mobility group on a mission to empower communities with accessible and sustainable mobility through GetGo Carsharing and ZipZap Car Subscription. GetGo Carsharing is Singapore’s largest and fastest growing carsharing service, with 3,000 vehicles over 1,700 locations islandwide, serving a community of over half a million users, 24/7. ZipZap Car Subscription is a car subscription service that aims to redefine longer-term personal car access through flexible, all-inclusive subscriptions.