Engineering Manager, AI-Driven Email App

Bjak; Singapore; On-site; SGD 115,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

KIRA is hiring a remote Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team building and scaling products used by millions. You will guide architecture, delivery and production reliability while aligning engineering with customer and business outcomes.

You will collaborate with product, design, mobile, backend and AI teams to turn complex problems into actionable technical plans and drive important initiatives across APIs, databases and cloud infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with production systems.
• Experience leading software engineers and owning delivery.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Software engineering leadership

Frontend development

Backend development

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Tools

APIs

Databases

Architecture reviews

Job description

KIRA is hiring a remote Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team building and scaling products used by millions. You will guide architecture, delivery and production reliability while aligning engineering with customer and business outcomes.

You will collaborate with product, design, mobile, backend and AI teams to turn complex problems into actionable technical plans and drive important initiatives across APIs, databases and cloud infrastructure.