About the role
TL;DR
Lead a high-performing engineering team building and scaling products for millions of users.
- •KIRA's mission is to make money smart, reliable, and within reach for everyone.
- •We are expanding our offerings beyond insurance to include spending, saving, investing, and travel, aiming to build AI-powered financial tools for millions in Asia.
- •We seek passionate individuals dedicated to building next-generation financial applications.
- •Key Responsibilities Lead and manage a team of engineers across frontend, backend, and full-stack development.
- •Own engineering delivery for major product areas, ensuring speed, reliability, and quality.
- •Drive technical architecture and engineering decisions across various systems.
- •Develop engineers through feedback, coaching, and performance management.
- •Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, speed, and technical excellence.
- •Requirements Strong software engineering background with experience shipping production systems.
- •Experience leading or managing software engineers and owning engineering delivery.
- •Strong technical depth across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure.
- •Ability to make sound technical trade-offs balancing speed, scalability, and maintainability.
- •Strong people leadership skills with the ability to coach and build high-performing teams.
Required skills
Engineering ManagementPythonJavaScriptTypeScriptJavaGoNode.jsPostgreSQLAWSCI/CDDockerKubernetesGit
Nice-to-have skills
ReactDjangoFlaskFastAPISpringExpressRuby on Rails.NETNestJSMongoDB
Domain expertise
fintech
Tech stack
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptJavaGoReactNode.jsDjangoFlaskFastAPISpringExpressRuby on Rails.NETNestJSPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisElasticsearchDynamoDBAWSGoogle CloudAzureTerraformDockerKubernetesCI/CDGitHub ActionsJenkins