Software Engineering Manager***

This will be a 2-years direct contract position. Responsibilities • Define engineering vision, strategy, and directions. • Produce long-term technical plan and roadmap and updating it regularly to meet future product/business needs and infrastructure requirements. • Engage with engineers in conversations about their performance, professional growth, offering constructive feedback, mentoring, and guidance. • Partner with stakeholders and agencies to prioritize and manage roadmaps for delivering product vision incrementally and efficiently. • Collaborate with cross-functional partners to develop quality, reliability, and security strategies. • Identify and initiate engineering initiatives. • Introduce practices and tools to encourage a strong engineering culture and maximize engineering effectiveness and impact. • Tracking engineering capabilities backed by facts ("show me the code"). • Defining and maturing key pillars such as Infrastructure-as-Code (creation, patching, remediation), CI/CD (build, test, deploy), and compliance posture (audits, VAPT, risk management). • Leverage leading and lagging metrics such as lead time and deployment frequency to create accountability and drive measurable improvement. • Support recruitment, particularly for more senior hires. Responsibilities Experience in • Large, high-availability software systems that have operated at scale. • Modern full-stack web application technologies; experience in modern front-end engineering like Next.js/React.js and Java/TypeScript on the backend. • Coaching developers (minimum 2 years). • Operating in an environment where engineering maturity is being built, not inherited Ethos Search Associates Pte. Ltd. EA License No: 13C6655 EA Reg No: R1988580 Jacky Chong