YouTrip
YouTrip
201 – 500 Employees
ConsultingLogisticsMarketing
YouTrip is a Singapore-based fintech company that combines a multi-currency travel card with a mobile app for managing spending abroad. Customers can hold, exchange, and spend 12 currencies across more than 150 countries, with physical and virtual cards, mobile wallet support, real-time transaction alerts, card controls, fraud monitoring, and in-app currency exchange. The company also offers features such as qualifying fee-free ATM withdrawals, merchant cashback, and travel-related perks.

Software Engineering Manager, Mobile & Backend — YouTrip (Singapore Hybrid)

Lead more than 10 engineers across Android, iOS, and backend at YouTrip, a multi-currency fintech platform serving the Asia-Pacific region. Set technical direction for scalable payment systems and mobile products.

Description

  • Lead and develop a cross-functional team of more than 10 Android, iOS, and backend engineers through goal setting, career support, and performance reviews.
  • Set technical direction across mobile and backend engineering, covering application architecture, API design, scalability, and end-to-end integration.
  • Contribute to production code, review mobile and backend changes, and maintain the technical expertise needed to guide the team.
  • Establish mobile engineering practices for performance, stability, crash-free operation, release management, and App Store and Play Store delivery.
  • Design and oversee secure, highly available backend services and APIs that support payments at scale.
  • Coordinate delivery across squads, keeping projects on schedule while maintaining quality and security standards.
  • Set coding standards, expand unit, integration, and UI test automation, and implement CI/CD pipelines across mobile and backend systems.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and apply industry practices that strengthen innovation, scalability, and developer productivity.
  • Foster effective collaboration with Product, Design, QA, and other cross-functional partners.
  • Keep stakeholders informed through regular updates on progress, technical direction, and delivery results.
  • Provide technical and professional coaching, helping senior engineers and tech leads become autonomous contributors.
  • Hire and develop a high-performing, agile, self-organizing team that delivers stable, scalable, and reliable features.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline.
  • At least 10 years of software engineering experience, including 5 or more years managing engineering teams.
  • Direct management experience with teams of 10 or more engineers, preferably across mobile and backend functions.
  • Strong hands-on experience in native mobile development, with working knowledge of either Android or iOS.
  • Experience with a cross-platform framework such as Flutter or React Native is advantageous.
  • Expertise in designing and building high-performance, concurrent backend applications.
  • Golang experience is strongly preferred.
  • Strong knowledge of distributed systems, microservices, API design, parallel processing, and complex software applications.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP, along with CI/CD and observability tools.
  • Experience in fintech, payments, or other regulated, security-sensitive environments is advantageous.
  • Ability to interpret product and business metrics and set objectives using the OKR framework.
  • Product-oriented judgment that balances feature delivery with engineering quality.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to manage squad priorities, deadlines, and outcomes.
  • Confidence making strategic decisions and taking calculated risks amid uncertainty.
  • Experience working with cross-functional and remote teams throughout the software development lifecycle.
  • Curiosity, creative problem-solving ability, and strong attention to detail.

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