Director of Engineering

Why Coda

Coda is a global growth engine for commerce, connecting people, digital products, and payments through trusted monetization and distribution solutions.

With 600+ people from 57 nationalities across 23 locations, we’re a truly global team headquartered in Singapore, with offices in Amsterdam, Dubai, Bristol, Shanghai, Eindhoven, and across Southeast Asia.

We power global commerce through a dual model. Our B2B solutions, Codapay, Coda Webstore, Coda Links, Coda Distribution, and Giftcloud, enable publishers and brands to monetize and distribute digital content globally. On the consumer side, we operate a portfolio of trusted storefronts including  Codashop, Recharge.com, Startselect.com, and mobiletopup.co.uk, that give customers secure and easy access to game top-ups, digital credits, vouchers, gift cards and prepaid products in over 70 markets.

Our culture is built on respect, ownership, and collaboration. We move fast, support each other, and celebrate wins together.

If you’re looking to grow your career and make a real impact in a global team, Coda is the place for you. 

Engineering - Technology at Coda

At Coda, our goal is to make our mark in the high-volume payments and e-commerce industry – and we are levelling up fast. To stay in stride with the dynamic environment, we focus on building robust, distributed systems that can effortlessly handle traffic spikes. Moreover, our ambitious roadmap necessitates innovative tools to streamline the development lifecycle and sustain our swift momentum.

We place great value on balancing teamwork with individual autonomy, allowing our teams to make the most of modern cloud infrastructure. Our tech stack is solidly based on AWS cloud, with a keen interest in infrastructure-as-code and the creation of new microservices via the Quarkus framework. Our toolbox includes JSON and GRPC, multiple data storage integrations, queues, OpenTelemetry, and more.

But what truly defines us? It's our incredible team. We hire top talent and give them the freedom to push Coda's technology and products to exciting new levels. We believe that genius can strike anywhere, so we promote ownership and cultivate a servant leadership culture that lets engineers take the reins on features.

The Opportunity 
Coda is looking for an experienced Software Engineering Director. We have a well-established eCommerce ecosystem, and the next stage of our growth requires a leader who can take ownership of a large and technically complex area and evolve it to meet the ever-increasing demands of our customers and partners. The ideal candidate will be a great communicator, both internally and with external partners, an experienced manager of managers and strong in distributed systems architecture with a track record of building and growing world-class engineering teams.

What you'll do

• Take ownership of Coda systems, working with your team to constantly drive our technology forward and defining an aggressive technology roadmap
• Lead, guide and mentor multiple software engineering teams and engineering managers
• Work closely with the Product team to ensure goals and work are clearly defined, at both the OKR and day-to-day levels
• Drive engineering best practices from the code level through to overall systems architecture including devops, automated testing, infra and data.
• Own the execution of product and technical goals across the payments group
• Coach team members using continuous improvement techniques, resulting in a high-performance team
• Collaborate with the recruiting team to attract strong engineering talent

What you"ll bring

• Proven experience managing managers and leading multiple engineering teams
• Experience managing software engineering teams (backend, frontend, and/or full-stack)
• Strong hands-on architectural expertise, with the ability to set technical direction and provide technical leadership
• Passion for building great products and software
• Exemplary communication skills, both written and oral
• Experience of building teams and optimizing team productivity in an agile environment
• 10+ years of experience as a successful software engineer working on hard problems
• 5+ years as an engineering manager, architect, or other leadership position
• Strong experience with a range of data technologies (RDBMS, NoSQL, message queues, etc.)
• The ability to query, analyze, and work with data to drive decision-making
• Expert-level architectural skills in building scalable, fault-tolerant distributed payment systems
• The ability to write and review code as necessary
• Able to quickly learn or evaluate new technologies

Bonus if you have

• Experience with extremely high-scale, distributed systems
• Payments, FinTech or E-commerce experience in a leadership role
• Strong knowledge of security / cryptography
• Experience working with PCI/DSS-compliant systems and processes
• Experience building systems in the AWS cloud