Engineering Manager

Founded in 2020, Durianpay is a next-generation B2B payments software enabling seamless transactions across Indonesia. With a mission to modernize and democratize payments for businesses, we focus on making transactions cheaper, faster, and more efficient. With over 25 million transactions processed monthly, we serve clients across diverse industries, including consumer goods, retail, automotive, and financial services.

At Durianpay, we're looking for an Engineering Manager who still thinks like an engineer but thrives by leading people, shaping processes, and driving delivery. You will guide one or more squads to deliver high-quality software while building a team culture rooted in ownership, clarity, and growth.

Main Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership

• Set high standards for code quality, system design, and technical documentation through thorough reviews and strong architectural judgment.
• Step in to review PRs when necessary and ensure TSDs consistently meet technical expectations.
• Facilitate design discussions and uphold engineering best practices across architecture decisions, CI/CD, observability, performance, and incident response.

Process Improvement

• Lead initiatives that improve team collaboration, planning, and execution, especially across squads or functions.
• Drive consistency in engineering workflows such as estimation, TSD reviews, and PR reviews.
• Champion tooling usage and improvements that support developer efficiency and delivery visibility.

Project Management

• Define and align quarterly engineering plans with business goals, including ownership of timeline and effort estimations.
• Challenge product expectations when needed to ensure OKRs are feasible and realistic.
• Translate goals into actionable roadmaps, track progress, resolve blockers, and ensure timely delivery across squads.
• Use tools like: Jira, Linear, Confluence, Notion, GitHub, and Internal Dashboards to maintain visibility and coordination.

People Management

• Mentor and grow engineers through 1:1s, coaching, feedback, and career development planning.
• Foster a healthy, inclusive team environment built on trust, clarity, and shared purpose.
• Lead hiring, onboarding, leveling, and team structuring as we scale.

Product Collaboration

• Partner with PMs to translate business goals into technical roadmaps and ensure technical feasibility, tradeoff clarity, and delivery alignment.
• Understand product context especially in payment flows like payment-in, payment-out, settlement, and reconciliation.
• Help engineers connect technical work with business impact.
• Advocate for technical initiatives that unlock long-term product innovation and scalability.

Must-Have Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a leadership or management role.
• Strong backend or full-stack background (Go, Java, Node.js, etc.)
• Solid grasp of engineering excellence, including: architectural design, data structures & algorithms, testing strategies, and performance optimization.
• Experience in setting and reviewing high-quality Technical Specification Documents (TSDs) and conducting architecture/design reviews
• Familiarity with CI/CD tooling, observability tools, and incident response processes as part of technical ownership
• Proven track record of delivering projects, improving systems, and growing engineering teams
• A process-minded, data-aware problem solver with excellent communication skills and ability to work across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
• Experience leading in a fast-paced or scaling startup environment, with the ability to balance structure with adaptability