We Are
YouTrip is the leading and fastest-growing multi-currency payment platform in Asia Pacific. In 2018, we pioneered the region's first multi-currency digital wallet. Now, YouTrip is the #1 multi-currency digital wallet trusted by millions across the region, processing over US$15 billion in total payment value annually.
Our consumer and business propositions – YouTrip and YouBiz – empower individuals and businesses with inclusive, accessible, and affordable financial solutions. YouTrip has raised over US$110 million to date, including its recent Series B round led by global venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners—underscoring strong investor confidence in its mission to transform digital financial services across the Asia Pacific.
Recognised as World Economic Forum’s Global Innovator 2025, CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies (2025, 2024), and LinkedIn’s Top Startup (2024, 2023), YouTrip is dedicated to creating the next generation of digital finance services for consumers and businesses.
Valuing an entrepreneurial culture of diversity and inclusion, we are seeking driven individuals to join our fast-growing regional team as we push the boundaries of innovative fintech solutions.
Job Description: Software Engineering Manager
We are looking for a seasoned Engineering Manager or Senior Engineering Manager with strong technical depth, proven people leadership, and a track record of operating across multiple teams and domains. In this role, you’ll drive the development of highly scalable applications while leading one or more squads, ensuring effective cross-team delivery and alignment. Your teams will be responsible for building end-to-end products, including backend services and front-end applications, used by millions of customers. You’ll play a key role in shaping engineering strategy, culture, and execution as we scale our suite of fintech services across Asia Pacific.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and develop a team of engineers across varied seniority levels, including the maturity to support ICs who may be more senior technically; set clear goals, drive career development, and conduct regular performance evaluations.
- Monitor engineering execution and delivery across squads, identify risks early, and drive solutions before they impact delivery timelines or quality standards.
- Maintain strong enough technical depth to evaluate architectural decisions, assess feasibility and risk, and contribute credibly to engineering strategy; actively engage in design reviews, code reviews, and HLD/LLD where needed.
- Define and drive technical direction across squads, ensuring architecture decisions align with business unit goals and broader engineering standards; contribute to roadmap planning, long-term technical strategy, and org-wide engineering practices.
- Uphold engineering excellence by enforcing coding standards, fostering test automation, and continuously improving development processes; stay informed on technical health including reliability, operational posture, and technical debt across your teams.
- Collaborate with adjacent teams and cross-functional stakeholders to solve shared problems, drive alignment, and escalate issues with wider scope; build consensus across technical and product leadership on significant decisions.
- Communicate strategy, rationale, and progress clearly to the team and external stakeholders; regularly share technical insights, delivery outcomes, and risks with leadership.
- Coach engineers both technically and professionally; identify and actively develop future engineering leaders within the team, and advocate for access to growth opportunities they may not get on their own.
- Build a high-performing, agile, and self-organizing team that delivers stable, scalable, and reliable features and services; lead hiring including interview calibration and headcount recommendations, and model a culture that balances speed with reliability.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of 3 to 4 years of hands-on experience in engineering management, with a strong track record of coaching and mentoring diverse engineering teams; prior experience operating across multiple teams or domains is strongly preferred.
- Expert-level proficiency in designing and developing high-performance, concurrent applications. Experience using Golang would be a plus.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to align cross-functional stakeholders, drive clarity on priorities and tradeoffs, and represent engineering concerns credibly to product and leadership.
- Strong understanding of product and business metrics; experienced in setting ambitious goals using the OKR framework and ensuring teams understand how their work connects to broader business outcomes.
- Demonstrates a balanced approach to product delivery and engineering excellence, with the ability to make pragmatic tradeoffs between short-term delivery and long-term architectural health.
- Background in working with distributed systems and highly complex software applications; able to assess systemic risk, evaluate tech stack decisions, and stay informed on reliability, operational posture, and technical debt across their teams.
- Comfortable taking calculated risks and making strategic decisions under uncertainty; able to build consensus across technical and product stakeholders and drive forward significant decisions with clarity and confidence.
- Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle with experience collaborating across cross-functional and remote teams; able to spin up, staff, and evolve team structures as product and technical needs change.
Curiosity, creative outside-the-box problem solving abilities and an eye for details.
