Engineering Manager - Travel FX App

Bjakcareer United States

About the role

This is a fully remote Engineering Manager role leading a distributed team building consumer financial software, including a travel foreign-exchange application. You'll combine people management with technical delivery, architecture leadership, and operational responsibility for software used by millions in Southeast Asia. The position is intended for an experienced engineering manager who can keep teams moving quickly while maintaining reliable systems.

What you’ll do

  • Coach and manage frontend, backend, and full-stack engineers.
  • Own delivery for major product areas.
  • Turn customer problems into technical plans with product and engineering partners.
  • Guide architecture across APIs, databases, integrations, infrastructure, and customer-facing systems.
  • Set expectations for testing, security, observability, and production resilience.
  • Improve engineering processes, tooling, and automation.
  • Support incident response and root-cause analysis.

What they’re looking for

  • Experience building and shipping production software.
  • Prior experience managing engineers and owning delivery results.
  • Technical breadth across application development, APIs, databases, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure.
  • Experience taking products from concept through launch and stable operation.
  • Ability to review designs, challenge technical choices, and debug complex production problems.
  • Strong product judgment, ownership, and comfort with ambiguity.

Nice to have

  • Experience in financial services, payments, foreign exchange, or regulated consumer products.
  • Familiarity with mobile-first products and high-traffic regional platforms.

What’s on offer

  • Fully remote work across multiple countries and time zones.
  • An international team using English as its main working language.
  • A hiring process with an online assessment, technical and leadership round, and final round, usually completed within one week for strong candidates.

Questions about this role

Is this Engineering Manager job remote?

Yes. The posting says the role is fully remote and hires across multiple countries and time zones.

What product will this manager work on?

The role includes a travel-focused foreign-exchange application serving users across Southeast Asia.

Is financial services experience preferred?

Yes. Experience in financial services, payments, foreign exchange, or regulated consumer products is listed as preferred.

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