Are you passionate about building great software and even more passionate about building great engineers?
As a Development Manager, you will lead multiple Agile software development teams responsible for delivering high-quality SaaS solutions. Beyond delivery, you will play a critical role in growing our engineering capability, developing teams, and strengthening our technology presence in Melaka.
Lead and Grow High-Performing Team
- Lead and inspire multiple multidisciplinary software engineering teams.
- Drive performance, career development and employee growth through regular coaching and feedback.
- Mentor engineers and emerging leaders, building a strong leadership pipeline.
- Partner in attracting, hiring, onboarding and retaining top engineering talent.
- Foster an inclusive, high-performing culture aligned with our values.
Strengthen Engineering Excellence
- Provide technical leadership and guidance across teams.
- Champion engineering best practices, including clean code, automated testing, CI/CD and DevOps.
- Facilitate technical discussions, challenge assumptions and drive sound engineering decisions.
- Contribute to architecture discussions and long-term technology direction.
Drive Delivery Excellence
- Partner closely with Product Management and stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Proactively manage risks, dependencies and delivery commitments.
- Balance feature delivery, product quality and technical debt.
- Drive accountability and ownership for team outcomes.
Build Organizational Capability
- Continuously improve engineering processes, team effectiveness and ways of working.
- Support the growth and scalability of our engineering organisation in Malaysia.
- Create an environment where engineers can do their best work and grow their careers.
People Management
- Minimum 3 years' experience leading software engineering teams in a direct people management capacity.
- Proven experience managing multiple teams and/or leading engineering managers or team leads.
- Demonstrated success coaching, mentoring and developing engineers and future leaders.
- Experience managing performance, career development and complex people-related matters with professionalism, empathy and sound judgement.
- Strong ability to build trust, engagement and high-performing team cultures.
Technical Foundation
- 8-10+ years of software engineering experience delivering complex enterprise software products or SaaS solutions.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, system design, API development, cloud platforms and modern engineering practices.
- Experience with Microsoft technologies including .NET, C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, SQL Server and Azure, alongside modern web application development, is highly preferred. Candidates from other enterprise technology environments with strong engineering leadership experience are also encouraged to apply.
- Ability to engage credibly with engineers, evaluate technical trade-offs and support sound technology decisions.
Delivery Leadership
- Strong understanding of Agile delivery methodologies and Scrum practices.
- Proven experience leading complex software delivery programmes and cross-functional teams.
- Ability to balance business priorities, technical excellence and team sustainability.
