Job Description

About Us

Circles.Life is Asia's first and most successful digital telco, and we are on a mission to re-imagine the mobile experience for the digital consumer and disrupt the multi-trillion dollar industry. We launched our services in 2016 and have been rapidly gaining market share while delivering best in class customer experience. We are leading the market in innovation, customer satisfaction and growth.

Job description:

We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager who will be responsible for leading a team of high performing engineers and delivery teams.

As a key member of our team, your responsibilities include:

• Leading and working closely with engineering teams to develop the best technical design and strategy
• Owning the delivery of various timelines, ensuring that key milestones are met and deliveries are of the highest quality.
• Taking end to end ownership of multiple domains within the platform driving the engineering excellence of services within these domains from a quality, security, availability, scalability and other "ilities" perspective
• Work closely with the Architects and principal engineers from the architecture team to ensure the domains under your purview are compliant to the agreed upon architectural guardrails
• Proactively monitor and manage the progress of the deliverables, identify risks and eliminate the roadblocks
• Establishing various best practices for software development (eg. documentation, testing), and encouraging their adoption with the team and organization.
• Ability to be hands on and get into the weeds when required
• Collaborating with other non-technical stakeholders of the business which includes Product Managers, Designers, Marketing etc.
• Mentoring an excellent team of talented engineers and working with Engineering leadership to coach and upskill junior developers.
• Enable and unblock the teams by proactively removing any roadblocks
• Conducting performance reviews and defining each individual's career paths to help developers grow within the organization
• Proactive resource planning to achieve a smooth delivery and proactively drive hiring on time with the help of TA teams - Take ownership of hiring for your teams
• Work closely with the engineering partners to align and onboard the contractors on time to manage and achieve delivery targets

Required Qualifications:

• Degree / Masters in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent
• Strong design and architectural experience in building various highly-scalable and highly-available cloud-based web apps (millions of consumers)
• Strong understanding of Agile and the SDLC Activities which include Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Deployment and Post-Production Support.
• Strong people management skills to lead and build a high-performing team
• Experience in Product Management or collaborating with Product teams and Managers
• Excellent analytic, problem-solving, oral and written communication skills with the ability to thrive in a high performance team

Preferred Qualifications:

• Comfortable in a startup environment - we're fast-paced, self-motivated, and determined to change the industry
• Experience in product-based / hyper-growth environment highly advantageous
• Working knowledge in Domain Driven Development and modeling complex business domains would be an advantage
• Experience in MicroServices based development
• Experience working in an Agile environment, including practices like Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) and Test-Driven Development.
• Experience working as part of and directing geographically dispersed, diverse, and virtual teams
• Strong preference for people with significant hands-on expertise in one or more of these software stack

• Backend: Java-Spring Boot, GoLang, Node.JS or similar stacks
• Frontend: Modern Javascript, React, Redux, HTML and CSS or similar stacks
• Mobile: Swift/Objective-C, Java/Kotlin or cross platform development such as Flutter, React Native, Ionic
• Telco Business Support Systems: Oracle stack (BRM version 7.5 onwards/ECE/PCRF/OCOMC), and experience solutioning through major industry standard (eg. eTOM, SID, TAM, ITIL, OSS/j,TM Forum)
• Performance Engineering: Full stack with excellent work experience in Containerization and Kubernetes, Cloud computing platform (AWS/GCP/Azure) and applications involving Message Brokers (eg. kafka, RMQ), databases (eg. RDBMS, NOSGL), caching systems and load balancers.
• Familiarity with UX principles for creating delightful Customer Experiences

What's on offer

Circles.Life provides a great environment and platform for employees to build their careers. In this role, you can expect:

• Unique opportunity to be a part of the digital disruption in telecommunication (Circles.Life is the only company of its kind in all of Asia!)
• Autonomy in the role and in managing your portfolio
• Exposure to the fast-paced world of high-tech start-ups
• Attractive experience and compensation
• Working with passionate, smart, and driven colleagues in a vibrant environment

To all recruitment agencies: Circles.Life will only acknowledge resumes shared by recruitment agencies if selected in our preferred supplier partnership program.

Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Circles.Life employees or any other company location. Circles.Life will not be held accountable for any fees related to unsolicited resumes not uploaded via our ATS.

Circles.Life is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, disability or age.