Mekari is one of the fastest-growing SAAS based companies based out of Jakarta, Indonesia, Mekari is an amalgamation of four very exciting products for businesses, namely, Talenta, Jurnal, Klikpajak, and Qontak, aimed for medium and large businesses to automate their HR management processes, help them with smart & real-time accounting software and help them with tax processing and filing.
To further expand with its offerings, we are looking for an experienced, insightful, forward-thinking Head of Engineering to play a key role in establishing Mekari tech in acquiring, onboarding, and growing the team's capabilities and leadership roles.
**Responsibilities**:
- Strategize across functions and engage with the entire team to plan and deliver profound impact towards consumers, merchants and drivers.
- Craft and implement the holistic talent acquisition and retention strategy for Mekari Engineering
- Set the highest bar for culture, engineering and product delivery excellence across the teams
- Working with your manager to drive goal-setting with your team and hold them accountable for results, and groom them to advance on their respective careers
- Ensure the team builds software that is architecturally consistent, of high quality, and that follows operational best practices
**Qualification**:
**Essential Technical Skills**:
- Solid 7+ years experience in building and leading to success scaled, full-stack engineering organizations of 20+ people
- Experience working in a regional organization with offices across different countries and cultures and facilitating collaboration across these different teams
- Sharp functional range, keen and effective in engaging and raising the bar across the engineering, business, product, and HR domains - amongst others.
- A degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology, or similar.
**Essential Soft Skills**:
- Worked in a startup-like environment with high levels of ownership and commitment
- Have a penchant for solving complex and interesting problems
- Ability to do deep problem solving and build elegant, maintainable solutions to complex problems
- Able to communicate effectively with other engineers, stakeholders, and management
- Experience managing engineering teams including hiring/termination and performance management
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You may be an excellent fit even if you don't meet all of the qualifications.
We wish you the best.
Have a great day!