Hey, mabuhay! 🏍️💨
Thanks for dropping by. We know looking for the right gig can feel like being stuck in EDSA traffic 🚗🚙🚌, so we’ll keep it moving and get straight to the point 📍.
With over 8 million downloads and a powerful network of thousand of dedicated biker-partners, we are a leading ride-hailing platform operating across the Philippines 🇵🇭. Our grand vision? To end poverty in the Philippines through revolutionary transportation solutions 🛣️. We aim to provide our customers with convenient, reliable, and safe rides, impacting millions of lives positively every single day.
Now, we're looking for a Lead Software Engineer. As a Lead Software Engineer, you will architect the technical foundation for our next phase of growth—championing Angkas’ core values, ensuring the delivery of high-performance releases, and driving the engineering innovations required to bring seamless, accessible transport to the Filipino masses.
What you’ll be doing:
- Architect and Standardize: Lead the design and evolution of high-performance, cross-platform mobile architectures using Flutter, ensuring a unified and scalable codebase for both iOS and Android.
- Strategic Collaboration: Partner with cross-functional leadership-including Product, Design, and Backend - to translate business objectives into technical roadmaps and bridge the gap between product vision and engineering execution.
- Performance Engineering: Oversee the implementation of complex features, setting the gold standard for app responsiveness, resource optimization, and long-term reliability.
- Agile Leadership: Drive engineering excellence within Agile ceremonies, streamlining sprint planning and refinements to accelerate delivery velocity and team predictability.
- Technical Governance: Establish rigorous code review standards, comprehensive testing strategies (Unit/Integration), and CI/CD best practices to ensure world-class maintainability and performance.
- Tech Stack Evolution: Act as a technical scout, identifying and integrating modern technologies and patterns to keep the Angkas ecosystem at the forefront of the industry.
- UI/UX Stewardship: Champion a culture of "pixel-perfection," ensuring the engineering team delivers high-fidelity interfaces that align strictly with design specifications and brand identity.
- Global Technical Liaison: Lead and mentor distributed engineering teams across different time zones, fostering a collaborative, high-trust environment through clear technical documentation and communication.
Where And How You Can Work 🗺️
Our Manila hub is the heart of our operations, keeping millions of commuters and riders connected across the metro 🏙️. We don't believe in micromanaging your route 🛑. We trust our team to choose the balance that empowers them and their squad to crush their goals 🏁. Whether you’re collaborating onsite, working remotely from your favorite coffee shop, or doing a mix of both ☕💻—we provide the flexibility; you bring the drive ⚡
Ready to change how the Philippines moves? Let’s get this show on the road 🚦 green light!
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional development experience
- Proven track record of architecting high-scale mobile applications, leveraging deep expertise in Native development (Android/iOS) alongside advanced Flutter and Dart implementation.
- Authority in the mobile ecosystem with a command of Flutter, Java, Kotlin, Objective-C, and Swift, ensuring seamless integration between cross-platform code and native modules.
- Expert-level application of Clean Architecture, MVVM, and OOP principles to build modular, testable, and maintainable codebases that scale with organizational growth.
- Strategic oversight of CI/CD pipelines and version control workflows (Git) to automate quality assurance and accelerate deployment cycles.
- Extensive experience leading the integration of mission-critical 3rd party services, including Geospatial/Maps API, advanced Analytics, and Payment Gateways.
- Hands-on mastery of mobile-first growth tools, including A/B testing frameworks, Push Notification engines, and complex Deep-linking strategies to drive user engagement.
- Champion of Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban), utilizing Jira and ClickUp to manage engineering velocity, remove blockers, and ensure transparent project tracking.
- Experience implementing AI/ML models at the mobile edge and server-side to power predictive features such as dynamic ETAs, personalized user experiences, and automated fraud detection.
Benefits
Why join Angkas?
- Work-life balance – Build a career without sacrificing your personal life.
- Free perks – Fuel up with free meals and stay active with gym access.
- Grow fast – Unlock career advancement and promotion opportunities.
- Get rewarded – Earn a competitive salary with opportunities for pay increases.
- Start-up energy – Be part of a fast-moving, innovative team where your ideas matter.
- Global vibes – Collaborate with a diverse, multicultural team in an agile workplace.
- Tech-driven culture – Work with modern tools and cutting-edge technology that keep you ahead of the game.
