Focus Global is dedicated to bringing the world’s top global brands to Southeast Asian homes. We take pride in being a true marketing company by employing extensive marketing tools and by investing and experimenting in new technology to help us regularly rethink and re-imagine the consumer retail experience. We promote a culture of growth, creativity, and excellence through our brands and through our people.
About the Role:
As a software engineering manager at FGI, your job is to keep software engineers efficient and executing on the right goals. The team is building e-commerce sites, customer journey analytics tools, and data infrastructure pipelines on modern tech stacks (react/next + flask + AWS, Airflow + Google Data Studio + BigQuery).
Our engineers are smart, flexible, and love solving difficult challenges. They look to their managers for organizational transparency, career development, mentorship, and honest feedback. They rely on their leadership to increase productivity by removing obstacles and keeping processes lean.
We are an expanding team with an abundance of growth and influence opportunities. You will work directly with the engineering head of the company (an ex-Google engineer) and help to set the team’s culture and technical direction.
You will:
- Lead a team of talented engineers who like to ship code and tackle hard engineering problems
- Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team members. Help develop their careers and assign them to projects tailored to their skill levels, personalities, work styles, and professional goals
- Provide continuous feedback, address underperformance, and recognize the individual strengths and contributions of your team members
- Create plans for prioritizing technical and resourcing challenges in your organization
- Maintain a balance between building sustainable, high-impact projects and shipping things quickly
- Instill a spirit of continuous improvement in the team’s code, architecture, and processes
- Work closely with the recruiting team to hire high potential candidates from diverse backgrounds
- Work with your engineers and/or product managers to maintain a prioritized backlog and create short term and long-term goals
Qualifications:
- You have a technical background (experience with modern web technology frameworks and cloud infrastructure) and are able to contribute to planning and design discussions.
- You have experience leading a team of engineers and guiding them through their career development
- You can motivate and instill a strong sense of ownership in your team
- You have experience guiding teams through planning, prioritization, and execution of work
- You think ahead and build for the future