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 - [protected info] 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: [protected info]
3+ years of experience
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Years of Experience Required
Required Education Level
Bachelor's Degree
Job Level
Middle/Senior
Work Form
Fulltime
Email: [protected info]