Senior Software Engineering Manager

At Omise, we believe the digitalization of the economy has opened up the world and offers endless opportunities to grow and make meaningful connections with one another. Omise is powered by its payment infrastructure sister company, Omise Payment Holdings, which provides one-stop online payment solutions.

Omise connects people, businesses and society in innovative ways to provide fair and open access to a growing economic ecosystem under its vision of enabling access to the digital economy for everyone. We are on a mission to make digital finance seamless and borderless for people and businesses. Our solutions are used by thousands of companies worldwide including Toyota, ByteDance, ICBC, SCB, True, Allianz Ayudhya, McDonald’s, BMW, King Power and Pomelo.

We are obsessed with solving financial coordination problems and developing new business models and technology that enable businesses to grow. We focus on addressing financial complexities and chokepoints by offering seamless and borderless solutions for our customers because we want them to focus on their core business and value proposition. 

As a value-driven organization, we are dedicated to selecting and retaining the sharpest minds across all functions. Help us make digital finance seamless and borderless for people and businesses. 

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.

What you will be doing

Technical Leadership 

• Oversee the design, development, and testing of highly secure, scalable software components related to payment gateway integrations and core transaction processing.
• Ensure the team writes clean, well-structured, and maintainable Java code by enforcing strict code reviews, design pattern standards, and robust testing methodologies.
• Take operational ownership of large-scale batch processing and scheduled job systems. Champion strategies for handling job failures, retries, concurrency, and performance optimization.
• Allocate work to team members, 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.

People Leadership & Team Development

• Guide a team of 6 backend engineers, conducting regular 1-on-1s, providing constructive feedback, and supporting their career growth.
• Promote a collaborative, high-standard engineering culture focused on code quality, continuous learning, and modern development practices (including AI-assisted development tools).
• Assist in hiring, onboarding, and scaling the engineering team to meet business objectives.

 

You

• Minimum of 3+ years of experience in engineering management, tech leadership, or team lead roles, alongside 7+ years of hands-on software development experience.
• Exceptional written and spoken English fluency, with a proven ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical work experience).
• Deep proficiency in Java and core 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, with familiarity in unit testing (JUnit, Mockito) and integration testing (REST Assured, JMeter).
  

Nice to Have

• Batch Processing Expertise: 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 (e.g., PCI-DSS), and secure processing protocols.
• Experience building and scaling Microservices architecture and deploying to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Next-Gen Engineering: Familiarity with leveraging AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate team velocity and code quality.
  

How to apply

If you liked what you read and believe to be up for the challenge, we'd be pleased to welcome you to the recruitment process for this position. Simply click on apply and submit your contact info. Afterward, this will happen next:

• The hiring team will review your application
  
• 2-3 Interviews with the hiring team, People Operations team and all stakeholders involved in the process

Why you’ll love it here

• Work with other talented, ambitious international colleagues who love their craft
• A modern and well-equipped work environment
• Flexible working hours
• A medical healthcare plan and annual health check-up
• A friendly bunch of colleagues

What we believe in

• We cultivate teamwork and a trust-based working culture
• We celebrate diversity and continuous improvement
• Giving our employees the opportunity and create for their own success

About Omise

• Founded in 2013, 500 people
• Headquartered in Japan, with operational headquarters in Bangkok and  offices in Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
• Raised over $236M of funding to date from institutional investors including SCB10X, SPARX Group Co. Ltd., Toyota Financial Services Corporation, JIC Venture Growth Investments, MUFG Bank, Mars Growth Capital,  Ascend Venture Group, and more
• Won Digital Startup of the Year at Digital Thailand Big Bang 2017
• Won Forbes Japan Startup of the Year 2018
• Won 3 awards from International Business Magazine Award 2020
  • Most Innovative Electronic Payment Platform for Singapore
  • Most Innovative Seamless Transactions Provider for Singapore
  • Best Payment Solutions Provider in Singapore
• Won Mizuho Innovation Award 2022 (Q2)

Life at Omise

Nearly 500 employees work from our six office locations as well as remotely from home or co-working spaces. While we are a global company, a lot of our thinking goes into how to solve payment problems at the hyper-local level to help businesses scale and reach their customers. 

Our core values — simple, real, and beautiful serve as our North Star and are integrated into how we work and the results of our work. 

At Omise, we empower people to embrace project-ownership and take initiative. We love to see our employees act as the owner of the outcome and confidently provide solutions to each challenge, taking a collaborative teamwork approach. Our fellow employees are encouraged to discuss and share ideas, and are given the freedom to explore all areas of their work, in order to achieve the expected results.

People at Omise are from different backgrounds and together, we contribute to creating an inclusive, friendly, and safe working environment. As a company, we embrace diversity and value open discussions, a learning mindset, professionalism, and respect. “Growing with us” means to celebrate the challenges and to always look for opportunities to learn, develop your skills, and move one step forward each day. If this is the work environment you are looking for, then get in touch with us.

We look forward to hearing from you. Omise embraces diversity and nourishes an open and inclusive work environment. We are home to over 27 nationalities and all decisions to hire, promote or discharge are based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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