Senior Engineering Manager

About the role

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, and the final technical call is yours. You set technical direction, own delivery of what the team commits to, and stay close enough to the work to make the architecture calls yourself. Squad leads run day-to-day code review; you set the gates they work to and review by exception. You'll partner closely with our Product team, who own requirements and roadmap, while you own technical approach, build quality and delivery.

Key responsibilities

• 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.

About you

• Proven engineering leadership, accountable for delivery outcomes across multiple teams or product lines, with demonstrated longevity in at least one recent role.
• Experience building and leading engineering teams across locations: hiring, structuring and developing both engineers and technical leads, resourced appropriately and cost effectively.
• The ability to coordinate complex technical projects that span multiple teams, and to report progress in clear, business-friendly terms.
• A strong track record 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.
• Architecture and platform design experience: setting architecture for systems serving many clients across multiple markets from one codebase.
• Technical credibility and ability to build directly with AI tools and judge whether the result is correct.
• Depth across AWS, databases and query performance, and deployment pipelines, sufficient to direct specialists rather than defer to them.
• A thorough understanding of security practice end to end, from product security through to threat management.

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.