Software Engineering Manager

Roles & Responsibilities

• Manage a team of 5-10 software engineers in Singapore and across multiple ASEAN locations, motivating and growing technical expertise in line with each developer’s individual career aspiratioManage a team of 5-10 software engineers in Singapore and across multiple ASEAN locations, motivating and growing technical expertise in line with each developer’s individual career aspirations

• Introduce and establish clear processes and coding standards to ensure consistently high code quality, including adoption of industry best-practices and automated developmental tools where appropriate, e.g. TDD, CI

• Interact with and provide expert technical guidance to Customers & Partners who require technical support during their integration with or implementation of VersaFleet

• Contribute and support any initiatives to improve the Company’s core technological stack to maintain a stable product infrastructure with 99.999% uptime and high system-response rate for a large enterprise-user base

• In partnership with the Company’s Founder Management Team, define, prioritize, plan and drive the execution of the technological vision and engineering team structure and roles required to achieve the company’s growth objectives

• Drive the Company’s ongoing R&D programs with research collaborators in academia and industry to implement Artificial Intelligence to improve and optimize key engineering components of the product tech stack

• Work closely with Co-Tech Leads & senior engineers to architecture, develop and deploy new features and enhancements to enterprise web- and mobile-based applications in a true SaaS, multi-tenant environment

• Manage the releases of the product & all sprint-related matters, coordinating between the tech team & Customer Experience teams to ensure users are informed of any updates & changes

• Ensure that QA function works closely in sync with Product and Engineering, with clearly described processes for unit testing, regression & preflight testing, issues & bug reporting, and other best-practices in QA

• Participate in the specification of new features and enhancements being prioritized by the Design and Product teams, including tech feasibility of functions and various interfaces of products or features to be developed.

• Assist to continually validate and ensure overall system stability, scalability, security and portability in line with the Company’s growing business needs and constantly evolving technological progression
  
  

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field from a top university.
• Minimum 8 years of hands-on software development experience
• Minimum 3 years of experience as software engineering manager or technical lead
• Experience in software development methodologies
• Experience in developing real-time web applications
• Experience in building and integrating large-scale software systems
• Involvement in complete software development life cycle of at least one project
• Strong knowledge in software/web architectures and design patterns
• Strong experience in at least one software/web development language
• Experience with software and web engineering tools
• Experience with continuous integration and code management repository tools
• Strong technical leadership and collaboration skills.
• Good technical writing and presentation skills
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Highly adept at project management in a demanding fast-changing environment with tight deadlines and scarce resources. Ability to multi-task is key.
• Team player
• Good time-management skills
  
  

What to expect

• Start-up culture: Highly agile and fast-paced environment
• Experience: Opportunity to learn a diverse range of skills in high-tech entrepreneurship
• A rapidly growing company with high career growth prospects internationally
• A small, tech-savvy team of geeks full of energy, creativity and “get-it-done” gumption

Please DO apply if:

• You have the skills we seek (and more!)
• You are smart, creative and energetic individual who wants to be challenged
• You get stuff done, no matter what barriers are in the way
• You are excited about working in a small, vibrant team that geeks out on tech and innovation.
• You enjoy having open & active discussions about current and new practices, processes and decisions.
  
  

Please DO NOT apply if:

• You are seeking a large, formal corporate environment to hide in, we are not that kind of company
  
• You prefer to have every little task explained in detail and like to be micro-managed
• You have previously used the phrase “that’s not part of my job description”