About EngageRocket
EngageRocket is the first venture-backed HR Technology company in Southeast Asia with the mission to create better workplaces through people analytics. We help organisations improve employee experience from hire to retire, driving outcomes such as stronger retention, engagement, and performance.
Our long-term vision is to enable better management decisions through continuous, data-driven workplace feedback. Achieving this requires not only strong technology, but strong engineering leadership — this is where you come in.
Role Overview
We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead engineering delivery for critical, enterprise-facing product areas. This role is responsible for execution reliability, engineering excellence, and team effectiveness, ensuring that complex, customer-impacting work is delivered predictably and sustainably.
You will lead a team of engineers and your role is to set direction, create clarity, remove obstacles, and raise the bar.
This role is well-suited for someone who combines strong technical judgement with people leadership, and who enjoys building systems that help teams scale without losing quality or purpose.
About You
You see engineering as a way to solve meaningful problems and empower people, not just ship code. You care deeply about building environments where engineers can do their best work while staying grounded in customer impact and business reality.
You bring structure without rigidity, clarity without control, and are comfortable making trade-offs when constraints are real. You believe great outcomes come from strong ownership, continuous learning, and collaboration across disciplines.
Key Responsibilities
Engineering Delivery & Execution
Own end-to-end delivery for assigned product areas, from planning through release
Translate product and customer needs into clear, sequenced, and realistic execution plans
Identify delivery and technical risks early and drive mitigation before issues escalate
Engineering Leadership & Team Growth
Lead, coach, and support a team of engineers
Set clear expectations around ownership, quality, and accountability
Create space for engineers to focus on deep work while providing guidance when needed
Foster a growth mindset through regular feedback, mentorship, and coaching
Technical & Quality Excellence
Champion high-quality engineering practices across the full development lifecycle:
Planning and design
Implementation and code review
Testing and automation
Documentation, observability, performance, and reliability
Guide technical decision-making to balance speed, scalability, and long-term maintainability
Ensure engineering work upholds high standards for data privacy, security, and robustness
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Partner closely with Product, Design, People Science, Customer Success, and other stakeholders
Facilitate clear conversations around scope, priorities, and constraints
Help teams understand why work matters, not just what needs to be done
Act as a steady, pragmatic voice during periods of change or pressure
Building Scalable Ways of Working
Improve delivery practices, tooling, and team rhythms over time
Reduce reliance on heroics by introducing repeatable, sustainable execution patterns
Help the organisation scale enterprise delivery without unnecessary process or overhead
Qualifications & Experience
Required
10+ years of experience in software engineering, including people leadership
Strong foundation in modern software engineering principles and practices
Experience developing and scaling SaaS or cloud-based applications
Proficiency with modern web technologies (e.g. JavaScript/TypeScript, React/Vue, Python, Node.js, Golang)
Experience with relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL
Strong written and conversational English
Proven ability to lead teams in fast-paced, evolving environments
Capabilities & Traits
Strong ownership mindset — accountable for outcomes, not just activity
Growth-oriented and curious, with the ability to learn and adapt quickly
Customer-centric, with empathy for how technology impacts real users
Clear communicator who can align technical and non-technical stakeholders
Calm, structured thinker under ambiguity and pressure
Comfortable troubleshooting complex systems and guiding teams to root causes
Nice to Have
Experience delivering enterprise or data-heavy products
Familiarity with distributed systems, analytics platforms, or configurable dashboards
Exposure to DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and security best practices