VP/SVP of Engineering

Title Head of Engineering

Location Jakarta Metropolitan Area

Senior Level Director

Employment Type Full-time

Job Function IT Services and IT Consulting

Overview The Head of Engineering has both a strategic and a technical role inside the company. The strategic aspect includes setting goals for the team, hiring engineers, and prioritizing projects. The technical aspect is about actively involving in developing new products, identifying requirements, and setting timelines. Our technology/engineering team is a group of 100+ talented people. Together with the Product teams, the gist of the role is to create innovative and scalable solutions to help Amartha grow its business.

Responsibilities

Oversee front-end and back-end development teams and their projects

Monitor reliability and performance of all internal systems to suggest improvements

Ensure compliance with relevant regulations

Manage software development projects by setting requirements, goals, and timelines

Design strategies for future development projects based on the company's overall objectives and resources

Hire engineers and coordinate their training

Implement innovative technologies

Coordinate with stakeholders for new integrations and tools

Requirements

Experience in developing data-intensive applications is a must

Experience in SaaS development

Experience in open API development

Solid enterprise integration architecture knowledge

Experience in leading 5-10 people squad

Solid engineer hiring experience

Hands‑on GCP tech experience: Cloud SQL Postgres, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, etc.

Built a scalable architecture

Experience with incident management

Monitoring distributed system

Agile practices: scrum or kanban

Don’t mind doing some coding works when required

Experience with CI/CD

Experience with automated testing

Hiring software engineers

Experience with team management

Fintech/financial institution/banking experience

Experience with Machine Learning will be a plus

Experience with TDD

Experience with refactoring large systems

Experience with event-driven architecture

Would be a plus if you have experience with Kafka, Kubernetes, Grafana, Prometheus

Equal Opportunity Employer At Amartha, we are dedicated to creating a workplace that celebrates diversity, ensures equity, and fosters inclusion. We believe that diverse perspectives—shaped by factors such as gender, age, race, ethnicity, education, culture, and life experiences—drive innovation and growth. We actively welcome individuals from all backgrounds to join us in building an environment where everyone feels respected, valued, and empowered. Our commitment is to provide equal opportunities and foster a sense of belonging that enables our employees to thrive and make meaningful contributions.

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