- Location
- Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia · published · Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Engineering
- Seniority
- Manager
- Source
- Workable
Description
Founded to transform retail finance, Ajaib Group is an Indonesian fintech unicorn breaking barriers to financial access. Having recently secured a $270M Series C—the single largest funding round in Southeast Asia over the past four years—we are backed by premier global investors including Y Combinator, Ribbit Capital, SoftBank, and SBI Holdings.
To build world-class products, we assemble world-class talent. Supported by our fully hybrid work arrangement, our team spans Eastern Europe, the Middle East, India, and Southeast Asia, allowing you to work with brilliant engineers and builders from around the globe from wherever you are.
Role Overview
As an Engineering Manager, you will lead and develop backend engineering teams responsible for building and maintaining reliable, scalable, and high-quality systems that power Ajaib’s financial products. You will combine technical judgment with strong people leadership to ensure your team delivers impactful solutions while maintaining high engineering standards.
Working closely with Product, Design, and other engineering stakeholders, you will translate business priorities into actionable technical plans, guide engineering execution, and foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement. You will also support your engineers' professional growth while ensuring our backend systems evolve to meet business and customer needs.
- Guide your team in designing and building scalable, secure backend services
- Stay hands-on when needed, including coding, debugging, and reviewing critical pull requests
- Step in during production incidents and work alongside your engineers to resolve them
- Take part in architecture and system design discussions, and make sound technical decisions
- Turn product and business priorities into clear engineering roadmaps and milestones
- Manage dependencies and flag delivery risks early to keep the team shipping
- Coach, mentor, and develop your engineers through regular feedback and career growth
- Build a team culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous learning
- Improve engineering processes across testing, deployment, monitoring, and incident management
- Partner with Product, Design, and other engineering teams to deliver high-quality solutions