About the role
Job Description
About AirAsia MOVE
AirAsia MOVE is a dynamic ASEAN-focused budget travel platform redefining how people experience and book travel. As part of Capital A, we’re building products that span flights, hotels, e-hailing, experiences, payments, and more—powered by a tech-first mindset and a relentless focus on customer experience. Join us in shaping the digital future of travel across the region.
About the Role
We are seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to drive technical excellence and own the technology roadmap for key OTA services. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and operating highly available, scalable systems, mentoring developers, and collaborating closely with engineering leadership. You will help shape team culture, make architectural trade-offs with confidence, and solve complex problems under tight deadlines.
Core Competence
Deep cloud, system design, and architecture expertise.
Cross-functional system knowledge for resilience, availability, and scale.
Confident in architectural and design trade-offs.
Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
Ability to own and evolve the team’s technical roadmap.
Proficiency in AI-driven tools and processes to boost developer productivity and automation.
Key Responsibilities
Provide architectural oversight and review designs for services, APIs, and data flows.
Make informed trade-offs between performance, reliability, and speed to market.
Define and enforce coding standards, design patterns, and best practices.
Mentor engineers on system design, code quality, and operational excellence.
Design and implement robust, scalable, and secure backend services (Java, Spring Boot, or similar).
Ensure services meet high availability, fault tolerance, and low-latency requirements.
Embed observability tools with OpenTelemetry into platform design.
Drive platform engineering, developer productivity tools, CI/CD pipelines, and service mesh implementations.
Experience in defining standards for coding, reliability, scalability, AI developer productivity.
Ensure services adhere to security, compliance, and data-privacy standards.
Troubleshoot production issues, conduct root cause…
