Senior Engineering Manager - Platform

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Engineering Manager - Platform
Location: Kuala Lumpur 

About AirAsia MOVE

AirAsia MOVE is a dynamic ASEAN-focused budget travel platform redefining how people experience and book travel. As part of Capital A, we’re building products that span flights, hotels, e-hailing, experiences, payments, and more—powered by a tech-first mindset and a relentless focus on customer experience. Join us in shaping the digital future of travel across the region.

About the Role

As a Senior Engineering Manager – Platform, you will lead the team responsible for building MOVE’s foundational systems—identity, authentication, service discovery, messaging, observability, and more. You’ll be a key driver in setting technical direction, growing platform engineers, and scaling systems that serve millions of users across our travel and fintech products.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and drive delivery of multiple frontend & backend teams building scalable, high-performance web and mobile applications.

• Translate product & tech roadmap vision into clear engineering roadmaps and ensure timely, high-quality execution.

• Build and scale strong frontend engineering teams through hiring, mentorship, and career development.

• Collaborate closely with product, design, and backend teams to deliver cohesive end-to-end customer experiences.

• Establish and enforce engineering best practices, coding standards, architecture reviews, and tech debt management.

• Drive continuous improvement in developer velocity, operational excellence, and platform stability.

• Align with leadership on business priorities, technical strategy, and long-term technology investments.

• Foster a culture of ownership, experimentation, and customer-centric engineering.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 4+ years in engineering leadership roles.

• Proven leadership of backend/platform teams delivering large-scale, high-traffic applications.

• Deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native architecture (GCP/AWS/Azure), microservices, and data platforms.

• Proven experience designing resilient, scalable, and secure platforms at enterprise scale.

• Hands-on understanding of cloud platforms (GCP), Kubernetes, and observability frameworks.

• Strong leadership in system design, architecture reviews, and cross-team technical governance.

• Prior Hands-on expertise in full-stack development, API design, data modeling, and infrastructure-as-code.

• Familiarity with platform domains like Auth, Notifications, Payments, Order Management, Developer Tooling.

• Strong technical background in modern frontend frameworks (React, Next.js, etc.) with ability to guide architectural decisions.

• Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, release management, and observability.

• Strong stakeholder management, cross-functional collaboration, and influencing skills.

• Track record of driving engineering excellence, career development, and cross-team influence.

• Exposure to multi-tenant systems, service mesh, or API governance frameworks.

• Startup experience is strongly preferred
   

Why Join AirAsia MOVE?

• Drive the core systems that power one of ASEAN’s most ambitious travel platforms.

• Be part of a high-impact, engineering-led transformation with regional scale.

• Collaborate with top engineering leaders across backend, product, and DevOps.

• Enjoy high ownership, fast iteration cycles, and visibility across the org.

• Regional travel perks and access to diverse verticals within Capital A.