Engineering Manager - AI-Native Email App

About the role

The Engineering Manager will lead a high-performing team to build and scale products used by millions of users. This role requires a strong technical leader who can manage engineers, make sound architectural decisions, and drive products from concept to production while maintaining high engineering standards.

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.
• Develop engineers through regular feedback, coaching, performance management and clear expectations.
• 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.

Required skills

• Software engineering
• People management
• Technical leadership
• Backend
• Frontend
• APIs
• Databases
• Distributed systems
• Cloud infrastructure

About the Company

Bjak is a leading insurance platform in Southeast Asia that started in 2019. The company is expanding its services to help people with spending, saving, investing, exchanging, and travelling.