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Engineering Manager - Travel FX App

🗓️ Posted 2026-09-02 Singapore Fulltime Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market S$10,000–S$18,000/mo

About the Company

Kira is a fintech company whose mission is to make money smart, reliable and within reach for everyone. In 2019 they launched the first mobile first insurance platform in Southeast Asia, and today the platform is the region's leading insurance solution. The company now expands its services to cover spending, saving, investing, exchanging, traveling, and more, building tools that help people get more from their money and achieve financial independence, with a focus on leveraging AI.

About the Role

The role is for an Engineering Manager who will lead a high performing engineering team building and scaling products used by millions of users across the region. The manager will be a strong technical leader, responsible for the quality of the engineering team and the speed of what the team ships, operating across people, product and technology, setting a high engineering bar while keeping the team focused on delivering real customer and business outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • ● Lead and manage a team of engineers across frontend, backend and full stack development
  • ● Own engineering delivery for major product areas, ensuring the team ships quickly without compromising reliability and technical quality
  • ● Work closely with product, design, mobile, backend and AI teams to turn ambiguous product problems into clear technical execution
  • ● Drive technical architecture and engineering decisions across APIs, databases, integrations, infrastructure and customer facing systems
  • ● Set engineering standards around code quality, system design, testing, observability, security and production reliability
  • ● Stay close to the technical work through architecture reviews, code reviews, debugging and critical engineering decisions
  • ● Develop engineers through regular feedback, coaching, performance management and clear expectations
  • ● Identify performance gaps early and take ownership of raising the team's engineering and execution bar
  • ● Improve engineering processes, tooling and automation to help the team move faster and operate at scale
  • ● Own production outcomes beyond release: monitor systems, resolve incidents, identify root causes and ensure problems do not repeat
  • ● Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, speed, technical excellence and continuous improvement

Requirements

  • ● Strong software engineering background with experience building and shipping real production systems
  • ● Experience leading or managing software engineers and owning engineering delivery
  • ● Strong technical depth across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, distributed systems or cloud infrastructure
  • ● Able to make sound architecture and technical trade offs while balancing speed, scalability and maintainability
  • ● Strong track record of taking products or systems from idea through development, launch and production
  • ● Comfortable reviewing technical designs, challenging engineering decisions and debugging complex production issues
  • ● Strong people leadership with the ability to coach engineers, manage performance and build high performing teams
  • ● Strong product sense and ability to connect engineering decisions to customer and business outcomes