Software Engineering Manager (Mobile & Backend)

About the role

YouTrip, a multi-currency digital wallet and payment platform serving consumers and businesses across Asia Pacific, is looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager with strong technical depth across Android, iOS and backend systems. You will lead a team of 10 or more engineers across one or two scrum teams, owning end-to-end products from backend services to the native mobile apps used by millions of customers.

Key responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and manage a cross-functional team of 10+ engineers, set clear goals, support career growth and run regular performance evaluations.
• Own the technical direction of mobile and backend: app architecture, API design, service scalability and how the pieces fit together.
• Contribute to codebases, perform code reviews and stay hands-on to guide the team.
• Drive mobile engineering best practices: app performance, stability, crash-free rates, release management and App Store / Play Store delivery.
• Design and oversee secure, high-availability backend services and APIs supporting payments at scale.
• Oversee project execution across squads, ensuring on-time delivery with quality and security standards.
• Enforce coding standards, build test automation (unit, integration and UI) and CI/CD pipelines, and bring in emerging technologies and best practices.
• Build a collaborative environment with Product, Design, QA and other partners, share progress with stakeholders, coach engineers and hire and grow an agile, self-organising team.

Required profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years in engineering management.
• Proven experience managing teams of 10 or more engineers, ideally across mobile and backend.
• Strong product-oriented mindset, comfort with OKRs, and experience with cross-functional and remote teams.

Required skills

• Native mobile development with working knowledge of Android and iOS; cross-platform frameworks such as Flutter or React Native are a plus.
• Expert-level backend application design and building; Golang is a strong plus.
• Distributed systems, microservices, API design, parallel processing and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP or similar).
• CI/CD, observability tooling, and experience in fintech, payments or other highly regulated, high-security environments is a plus.