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FULL_TIME
Remote
10+

Head of Engineering/Engineering Manager - BE

3/6/2026

The role involves driving the long-term technical direction for high-traffic microservices, ensuring systems meet benchmarks for observability, performance, and security. This leader will also serve as the vital link between C-suite objectives and engineering execution for the Digital Bank roadmap.

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

201-500 employees

Language

English

Visa Sponsorship

No

About The Company
Founded in 2019, Ajaib is a rapidly growing investment platform in Indonesia. It offers financial technology services such as stock trading, mutual funds, and coins. The simplicity of investing through Ajaib inspired our name, which means "magic," as we aim to disrupt the financial industry magically. Our goal is to make stock trading accessible to millennials with our mobile-first approach, low fees, and user-friendly interface. Ajaib has become Indonesia's first fully online stock brokerage, with no offline brokers or branches. Trusted by over 3 million customers, we are the fastest-growing investment startup in Southeast Asia. Backed by top investors like DST Global, Horizons Ventures, and Alpha JWC Ventures, we proudly became Indonesia's first investment fintech unicorn.
About the Role

You will be the primary steward of Ajaib’s technical resilience. Your role is to bridge the gap between visionary business objectives and world-class system design, ensuring that our infrastructure scales ahead of our user base.

Your Core Pillars of Impact

1. Architectural Stewardship: Drive the long-term technical direction for our high-traffic microservices. You will ensure our backend systems set the industry benchmark for observability, performance, and financial-grade security.

2. Strategic Orchestration: Serve as the vital link between C-suite objectives and engineering execution. You will manage complex stakeholder expectations, resource allocation, and the technical roadmap for our Digital Bank.

3. Talent Alchemy: You are a "Leader of Leaders." Through sophisticated coaching and mentorship, you will cultivate a high-performance culture rooted in accountability, technical excellence, and professional growth.

4. Operational Maturity: Refine engineering processes to increase innovation throughput. You will identify and eliminate systemic bottlenecks, ensuring the organization maintains "Blitzscaling" speed without compromising stability.

You are a tech-native leader who has successfully navigated the complexities of large-scale distributed environments.

  • Technical Governance: Authoritative knowledge of modern system design and distributed state management. You are skilled at navigating the complexities of large-scale backend environments, ensuring that our Java/Go services and SQL layers are architectured for maximum durability and sub-millisecond performance.
  • System Design Mastery: Well-versed in the trade-offs of event-driven architectures (Kafka/RabbitMQ) and the orchestration of complex asynchronous workflows in a regulated financial environment.
  • The Track Record: 8+ years in software engineering with 3+ years managing multiple teams in a high-concurrency environment (e.g., 30M+ transactions/users).
  • Leadership Gravitas: Proven experience building and scaling engineering organizations of 30-60+ people. You lead through empowerment and technical credibility, not through hierarchy.

The Communicator: Fluent in English. You can translate a complex architectural risk into a business-level decision for the Board of Directors.

Key Skills
Architectural StewardshipStrategic OrchestrationTalent AlchemyOperational MaturityTechnical GovernanceSystem Design MasteryDistributed State ManagementJavaGoSQLEvent-Driven ArchitecturesKafkaRabbitMQCoachingMentorshipStakeholder Management
Categories
EngineeringManagement & LeadershipSoftwareFinance & Accounting
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