Senior Engineering Manager

About Us:

AYP is a Singapore-headquartered HR technology company helping companies hire, pay, and manage talent across APAC. We deliver Employer of Record (EOR), PEO, and Payroll Outsourcing through our platform, which spans the full client lifecycle from onboarding and proposals through hire creation, payroll, and invoicing. We operate across Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, and other APAC markets, which means multi-jurisdiction statutory compliance (CPF, EPF, BPJS, and more) sits at the centre of what we build.

Job Overview:

We're hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to own engineering at AYP. You'll lead the engineering function, with development, DevOps and QA reporting to you, building a platform where getting the details right has real consequences for clients people getting paid correctly and on time.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You set technical direction, own delivery of what the team commits to, and stay close to the work, reviewing code and making the architecture calls yourself.

You'll partner closely with our Product team, who own requirements and roadmap, while you own technical approach, build quality and delivery.

What You'll Do

• Set technical architecture and a sequenced engineering roadmap from platform priorities, and make the build, buy and integration calls
• Own delivery of committed scope across the team, allocating capacity and balancing scope, time and quality
• Own cloud infrastructure and platform reliability: AWS architecture and cost, database performance, deployment pipelines, and incident response
• Own security and data protection: access control, vulnerability management, and the standards that keep client payroll and personal data safe across every market we serve
• Set the direction on AI, both in the product and in how the team builds, and take it from proof of concept through to production
• Define engineering standards: code and architecture quality, review gates, and how technical debt is managed
• Lead and grow the engineering, DevOps and QA teams, from hiring and onboarding through capability and performance
• Act as the final technical decision-maker, and shape how engineering is structured as the team grows

What You'll Bring

• Proven engineering leadership, accountable for delivery outcomes across multiple teams or product lines
• A track record of structuring, staffing and maintaining a high-performing engineering team, resourced appropriately and cost-effectively
• Expert hiring manager skills, and a clear people management philosophy for both engineers and technical leads
• The ability to coordinate complex technical projects that span multiple teams, and to report progress in clear, business-friendly terms
• Expertise in agile delivery, with a focus on team velocity and execution against business goals
• A strong working partnership with product management, and excellent communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience managing relationships with external technology vendors and partners
• Success leading a distributed team, and demonstrated longevity in at least one recent role

Technical Depth

• Hands-on credibility. You have written or reviewed production code within the last year, and you intend to keep doing so
• Architecture and roadmap. The ability to develop long-term technical roadmaps and broker architectural decisions across teams, drawing on both a deep understanding of established systems and a view on where the industry is heading
• Cloud infrastructure and the data layer. Solid depth across AWS, databases and query performance, deployment pipelines and observability, enough to direct specialists and to weigh cost, reliability and speed against one another
• Security. A thorough understanding of security practice across the entire software lifecycle, from product security through to threat management
• Technical debt and system health. Experience prioritising technical debt at an organisational level, identifying risks and balancing short-term delivery against long-term system health
• AI. A clear, practical view of where AI adds value in the product and in engineering delivery, grounded in your own use of it

Who You Are

• Driven: high standards for yourself and the work, and the will to push through ambiguity
• Decisive: you make the call and you explain your reasoning
• A team player: you make the people around you better
• Grounded: as comfortable in the detail with engineers as in a leadership meeting
• A curious mind: you ask why, dig into how things actually work, and keep learning

Nice To Have

• Background in EOR, PEO, payroll, HRIS or workforce management products
• Exposure to multi-country statutory or tax logic
• Experience bringing an internal platform through to a client-facing product
• SOC 2 or ISO 27001 carried through audit