You will be the primary steward of Ajaib's technical resilience. Your role is to bridge the gap between visionary business objectives and world-class system design, ensuring that our infrastructure scales ahead of our user base.
Your Core Pillars of Impact
- Architectural Stewardship: Drive the long-term technical direction for our high-traffic microservices. You will ensure our backend systems set the industry benchmark for observability, performance, and financial-grade security.
- Strategic Orchestration: Serve as the vital link between C-suite objectives and engineering execution. You will manage complex stakeholder expectations, resource allocation, and the technical roadmap for our Digital Bank.
- Talent Alchemy: You are a "Leader of Leaders." Through sophisticated coaching and mentorship, you will cultivate a high-performance culture rooted in accountability, technical excellence, and professional growth.
- Operational Maturity: Refine engineering processes to increase innovation throughput. You will identify and eliminate systemic bottlenecks, ensuring the organization maintains "Blitzscaling" speed without compromising stability.
You are a tech-native leader who has successfully navigated the complexities of large-scale distributed environments.
- Technical Governance: Authoritative knowledge of modern system design and distributed state management. You are skilled at navigating the complexities of large-scale backend environments, ensuring that our Java/Go services and SQL layers are architectured for maximum durability and sub-millisecond performance.
- System Design Mastery: Well-versed in the trade-offs of event-driven architectures (Kafka/RabbitMQ) and the orchestration of complex asynchronous workflows in a regulated financial environment.
- The Track Record: 8+ years in software engineering with 3+ years managing multiple teams in a high-concurrency environment (e.g., 30M+ transactions/users).
- Leadership Gravitas: Proven experience building and scaling engineering organizations of 30-60+ people. You lead through empowerment and technical credibility, not through hierarchy.
The Communicator: Fluent in English. You can translate a complex architectural risk into a business-level decision for the Board of Directors.
About Ajaib Crypto
Ajaib Crypto, launched as the dedicated digital asset arm of Indonesian unicorn Ajaib founded in 2018 by Anderson Sumarli and Yada Piyajomkwan in Jakarta, is one of Southeast Asia's fastest-growing retail crypto and investment platforms. Licensed and supervised by Bappebti and the Financial Services Authority (OJK), Ajaib Crypto provides millions of Indonesian millennials and Gen-Z investors with instant rupiah on-and-off ramps, spot crypto trading, staking and educational modules. Backed by leading global investors including Ribbit Capital, SoftBank and Horizons Ventures, Ajaib blends consumer-friendly mobile UX with institutional-grade custody and local bank rails. The culture values financial inclusion, mobile productcraft and executing under rigorous local compliance frameworks.