Engineering Manager en Yojee

Summary

Yojee is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead multiple engineering squads through a period of high growth, increased product stability, and deep architectural transformation.

This role requires a rare blend of strong people leadership, technical credibility, and delivery discipline. You’ll coach, empower, and grow the Engineers and Team Leads while ensuring each squad consistently ships high-quality outcomes.

If you can bring structure to complexity, clarity to chaos, and calm authority to a technical team — this is your role.

About Yojee

Yojee builds software that connects and optimises freight movements across APAC and beyond. We’re rapidly evolving our platform and expanding our engineering organisation to meet the scale and complexity of modern logistics demands.

We value craftsmanship, simplicity, transparency, and a team-first culture. You will be joining during a pivotal moment — where your leadership will directly shape how Yojee engineers design, deliver, and collaborate.

About the Role

As the Engineering Manager, you’ll oversee several cross-functional squads, partnering closely with Product, Design, and other leaders to ensure smooth execution, smart prioritisation, and a positive engineering culture.

You will not be writing production code daily — but you must be able to guide technical decisions, unblock architectural challenges, coach leads, and maintain the respect of senior engineers.

This is a role for someone who loves:

• developing high-performing engineering teams,
• improving delivery operations,
• building predictable, stable engineering environments,
• and creating space for great engineers to do their best work.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & People

• Lead, coach, and grow multiple engineering squads and Team Leads.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and development planning.
• Build a culture of accountability, trust, and engineering excellence.
• Support hiring, onboarding, and professional development across the team.

Technical Guidance

• Provide technical direction and ensure high-quality architecture across squads.
• Act as a sounding board and escalation point for complex technical problems.
• Partner with Tech Leads on setting coding standards, testing practices, and documentation expectations.
• Ensure squads are making simple, scalable, and maintainable decisions.

Delivery & Execution

• Ensure engineering teams deliver against goals with predictability.
• Implement and refine processes to improve flow, reduce bottlenecks, and enhance velocity.
• Support squads through planning, prioritisation, estimation, and retros.
• Monitor engineering health: quality, stability, performance, and operational reliability.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Product to align roadmaps, clarify requirements, and balance trade-offs.
• Communicate engineering progress, challenges, and risks to leadership.
• Ensure alignment across squads when working on shared code, systems, or architecture.

What You Bring

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager leading multiple teams or squads.
• A strong technical background — ideally in Elixir, or in building distributed/cloud-native systems.
• Experience managing senior engineers and technical leads.
• Excellent problem-solving, decision-making, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Ability to create clarity and focus in fast-moving, high-change environments.
• Strong delivery instincts — you know how to get teams shipping.
• Empathy, emotional intelligence, and mature communication.
• Experience hiring, coaching, and developing engineering talent.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience working in scale-up or transformation environments.
• Exposure to Phoenix, LiveView, OTP, or event-driven architectures.
• DevOps familiarity (AWS, Docker, CI/CD).
• Logistics or supply chain domain experience.

Why You’ll Love Working Here

• You will shape Yojee’s engineering culture and structure during a pivotal moment.
• You will lead smart, low-ego engineers who care deeply about quality.
• You will have genuine ownership and the trust to lead in your own style.
• You will influence architecture, delivery operations, and team development.
• You will join a company valuing clarity, impact, and engineering excellence.