Software Development Manager (Melaka)

Lead and Grow High-Performing Teams

• 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.