Manager - Software Engineering

As an Engineering Manager on the Base Apps Mobile mesh team, you will lead the Backend, SRE, and QE teams. This role offers growing influence, and scope, with the near-term goal of taking on more day-today leadership responsibilities across the whole Base Apps mesh team (including the iOS, Android, and Web teams). This is a unique opportunity to make a real impact in a fast-moving environment: build and develop a lean, effective team-of-teams, shape the technical roadmap, and help deliver high-impact initiatives. Your work will improve features that millions of users in the Philippines and beyond rely on every day.

What you will do:

Lead the Tech Leads of the Backend, SRE, and QE teams (initially: 3 direct reports, with a total team size of 13).

• Participate in early solutioning discussions for product requirements and support successful deliveries as needed.

• Work closely with the Director of Software Engineering on both short-term and long-term initiatives, including ad hoc tasks.

• Collaborate with the Product Owner and the other teams to refine requirements and translate business requirements into actionable technical plans and initiatives.

• Provide technical guidance, support solutioning efforts, and facilitate architecture discussions.

• Help prioritize work and contribute to shaping the technical roadmap.

• Track and report progress, identify blockers, and proactively resolve or escalate them as appropriate.

• Foster a collaborative, productive, and high-trust work environment.

• Coach, mentor, and develop Tech Leads to strengthen leadership across the mesh.

• Build and grow the teams through capacity planning, recruitment, coaching, performance evaluation, and continuous feedback.

• Gradually take on broader day-to-day leadership responsibilities across the whole Base Apps Mobile mesh (team size: 25+)

What you need to succeed:

Proven experience in backend development and building scalable, distributed systems on cloud infrastructure, with strong proficiency in modern testing practices.

Preferably within the Java or Node.js (TypeScript/JavaScript) ecosystems.

• Demonstrated track record of delivering highly scalable and reliable distributed systems and platforms.

• 3+ years of experience in team management, including leading direct reports.

• Experience in building and growing high-performing engineering teams.

• Deep understanding of a wide range of current and emerging technologies, combined with seasoned leadership on major projects.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across departments and with senior stakeholders.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.

• Effective communication and teamwork in an Agile environment (we use Scrum).