Engineering Manager - Travel FX App
Bjak · Remote · Seoul, Korea ·
COMPENSATION
€•• – ••k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Fully remote (Global)
- Engineering Leadership
- Fintech Platform
- English Required
- Fast Hiring Process
You will guide engineers across frontend, backend, and full stack disciplines to deliver scalable solutions for millions of users. This position requires balancing architectural decisions with rapid product delivery while maintaining high standards for code quality and system reliability.
What you'll do
- Lead and manage a cross-functional engineering team including frontend and backend developers.
- Own engineering delivery for major product areas ensuring speed without compromising quality.
- Collaborate with product, design, and AI teams to translate ambiguous problems into technical plans.
- Drive architecture decisions for APIs, databases, infrastructure, and customer-facing systems.
- Establish standards for code quality, testing, observability, security, and production reliability.
- Conduct architecture reviews, code reviews, and debugging to stay close to technical work.
- Mentor engineers through feedback, coaching, and performance management.
- Improve engineering processes, tooling, and automation to increase team velocity.
- Monitor production systems, resolve incidents, and identify root causes to prevent recurrence.
What you'll need
- Strong software engineering background with experience shipping real production systems.
- Proven experience leading or managing software engineers and owning engineering delivery.
- Technical depth in backend, frontend, APIs, databases, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure.
- Ability to make sound architectural trade-offs balancing speed, scalability, and maintainability.
- Track record of taking products from idea through development, launch, and production.
- Comfortable reviewing technical designs and debugging complex production issues.
- Strong people leadership skills for coaching engineers and building high-performing teams.
- Product sense to connect engineering decisions with customer and business outcomes.
- Ability to work fast with ambiguity and drive teams toward clear outcomes.
- Strong ownership mentality regarding delivery slips or technical failures.
- Strong English communication skills for global collaboration.
How you'll work
- Fully remote role with global hiring.
- Work across multiple countries and time zones.
- Collaborate in a distributed, fast-moving international team.
- English is the main working language.
Hiring process
- Online assessment or practical task.
- Technical or engineering leadership interview.
- CEO or final round interview.
- Process aims to complete within one week for strong candidates.