Software Engineering Manager

About the Company

At Omise, we believe the digitalization of the economy has opened up the world and offers endless opportunities to grow and make meaningful connections. Omise is powered by its payment infrastructure sister company, Omise Payment Holdings, which provides one-stop online payment solutions. Our solutions are used by thousands of companies worldwide including Toyota, ByteDance, ICBC, SCB, True, Allianz Ayudhya, McDonalds, BMW, King Power and Pomelo.

Role Overview

As an Engineering Manager at Omise, you will lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of software engineers dedicated to building and scaling our core payment gateway integrations and transaction processing systems. You will balance technical leadership with people management—ensuring your team writes clean, maintainable Java code while driving the execution of robust batch processing and microservices architectures.

Responsibilities

• Oversee design, development, and testing of secure, scalable software components for payment gateway integrations and core transaction processing.
• Ensure the team writes clean, well-structured, and maintainable Java code by enforcing code reviews, design pattern standards, and robust testing methodologies.
• Take operational ownership of large-scale batch processing and scheduled job systems; handle job failures, retries, concurrency, and performance optimization.
• Allocate work, track progress, and mitigate risks to ensure timely project delivery.
• Guide the team in troubleshooting and resolving complex technical issues and production bottlenecks.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies (sprint planning, standups, retrospectives) to maintain an efficient, predictable delivery cadence.
• Conduct regular 1-on-1s, provide constructive feedback, and support career growth for a team of ~6 backend engineers.
• Assist in hiring, onboarding, and scaling the engineering team.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3+ years of experience in engineering management, tech leadership, or team lead roles, and 7+ years of hands-on software development experience.
• Exceptional written and spoken English fluency with ability to explain complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Deep proficiency in Java, object-oriented programming principles, design patterns, and SQL databases.
• Expert-level understanding of the Spring Framework, Spring Data JPA, and Hibernate.
• Strong advocate for automated testing; familiarity with unit testing (JUnit, Mockito) and integration testing (REST Assured, JMeter).

Nice to Have

• Hands-on experience designing and supporting large-scale batch processing and scheduled job systems using Spring Batch and cron frameworks.
• Prior experience with payment gateway integrations, payment industry standards such as PCI-DSS, and secure processing protocols.
• Experience building and scaling microservices and deploying to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate team velocity and code quality.

How to apply

• Click apply and submit your contact info.
• The hiring team will review your application.
• 2-3 interviews with the hiring team, People Operations, and stakeholders.

Why youll love it here

• Work with talented, ambitious international colleagues.
• A modern and well-equipped work environment and flexible working hours (hybrid).
• Medical healthcare plan and annual health check-up.
• A friendly bunch of colleagues and a culture of teamwork, diversity, and continuous improvement.

About Omise

• Founded in 2013; ~500 people.
• Headquartered in Japan, operational headquarters in Bangkok, with offices in Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
• Raised over $236M of funding to date and recipient of multiple startup and innovation awards.