Engineering Manager

JOB DESCRIPTION

Lead the team

• Manage a team of 5-7 engineers spanning full-time staff and contractors - hiring, onboarding, goal setting, 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development.
• Build a team culture where full-time and contract engineers work as one unit, with clear ownership, documentation, and knowledge transfer that survives contract rotation.
• Handle the practical side of a blended team: statements of work, contractor extensions and offboarding, and continuity planning for critical knowledge.

Own delivery

• Run quarterly planning for your team, translating company objectives into scoped, sequenced, and estimated work.
• Drive estimation and commitment practices the team actually trusts - break down epics, surface dependencies early, and hold a realistic line on scope.
• Track and communicate delivery status honestly, including when a date is at risk and what the options are.
• Partner with product, QA, and infrastructure counterparts to get work to production safely.

Stay technical

• Participate in design reviews and architectural decisions across the frontend and backend stack.
• Review code, unblock engineers, and set the bar for quality, testing, and operational readiness.
• Make pragmatic build-vs-buy and technical debt tradeoffs, and be able to defend them.

Raise the productivity ceiling

• Introduce and champion AI-assisted development tooling across the team, and measure whether it’s actually helping.
• Establish sensible guardrails for AI-generated code - review standards, security expectations, and what should never leave the building.

REQUIREMENTS

Required

• 3+ years managing software engineering teams, with direct experience managing a mix of full-time employees and contractors.
• Strong technical grounding in a modern frontend stack - React.js and equivalents (TypeScript, modern build tooling, component architecture, state management).
• Backend depth in Golang and Java, enough to review designs and code credibly.
• Demonstrated experience with quarterly planning, project management, and estimation at a team level.
• Hands-on experience using AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar) to increase engineering throughput, and a point of view on where they help and where they don’t.
• Based in Bangkok, with the flexibility and willingness to work US Eastern Time hours on a regular basis.
• Strong written and spoken English.

Nice to have

• Working knowledge of AWS - ECS/EKS, RDS, networking, IAM, cost awareness.
• Background in payments, fintech, or another regulated, high-availability domain.
• Experience with PCI DSS or similar compliance regimes.
• Familiarity with structured goal frameworks such as OGSM or OKRs.
• Experience managing distributed teams across multiple time zones.

HOW TO APPLY

Please send your application via email: [email protected]

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