Dicari Segera Head of Engineering - PT. Dealls (YC W22) – Gaji di Atas UMR

Dealls is Indonesia's largest job portal & mentoring platform. We help people easily find jobs to top Indonesian companies for internship and full-time roles.

As you might have already heard about us, we are revolutionizing how Indonesian engage with employers. Many Indonesian students are talented, ambitious, but never found a better opportunity for themselves. Our team is driven by the vision to democratize information and knowledge, thus opportunities. We think what we build will allow Indonesian students to have a chance to self develop and have a better future.

Our founder is a Harvard graduate, and has gathered a strong team with burning passion to help Indonesian discover opportunities they deserve! 🚀 In 1 year, we amassed 2mio+ users, got funded by YCombinator, and awarded the Best App of 2021 by GooglePlay, beating 3 unicorns and tens of others.

We are looking for passionate and committed individuals who look forward to working in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment. Join us to have the opportunity to make decisions to drive a huge difference and impact for Indonesia youths! Here in Dealls, you’ll work closely with our board members. We are preferably looking for applicants who are proficient in both Bahasa and English.

As our Head of Engineering, you will be the #1 technical leader in the company — responsible for scaling our systems, our people, and our execution velocity. You’ll be expected to work hands-on in the early months to clean up fragmentation, standardize practices, and prepare our architecture for millions of users. Your responsibilities include:

🧠 Technical Direction & Execution

• Own the technical roadmap and architectural standards across backend, frontend, and infra (Golang, Next.js, GCP).
• Design and enforce standard service architecture, coding guidelines, and error-handling patterns across teams.
• Build a shared framework/templates to enable plug-and-play feature development with minimal friction.
• Drive test-first and modular design principles to contain bugs and improve developer confidence.
• Lead scalability planning to prepare the system to serve 1 million+ check-ins in one hour by Dec 2026.

🚀 Engineering Excellence & Velocity

• Improve development workflows (CI/CD, release cycles, code reviews) to reduce PR lead time and increase quality.
• Own the establishment of testing culture: ensure all critical modules have high test coverage.
• Introduce monitoring, metrics, and incident response best practices to reduce issue blast radius.

🤝 Product-Engineering Collaboration

• Work closely with the Product team to align timelines, scope, and priorities.
• Introduce structured scoping processes (e.g., tech effort estimation, tradeoff decisions) before product features are committed.
• Push back smartly when Product requests create long-term risk, and propose better alternatives.

👥 People & Team Building

• Mentor and grow engineers of all levels — especially senior ICs and future tech leads.
• Identify and promote key individuals into squad or tech lead roles to build a strong mid-layer.
• Run regular tech syncs, code reviews, and post-mortems to maintain knowledge flow and high standards.

📈 Org Design & Engineering Culture

• Restructure the engineering team into clear squads with defined ownership if needed.
• Build a healthy engineering culture: balance pragmatism with excellence, and autonomy with accountability.
• Support engineering brand development (e.g., blog posts, public talks, open-source contributions).

✅ Must-Have

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience, 2+ years in technical leadership roles (Lead, Principal, or Head).
• Strong hands-on experience building scalable systems using Golang and deploying in GCP or similar cloud platforms.
• Proven track record of building systems with high modularity, observability, and performance under load.
• Experience designing and enforcing engineering standards, frameworks, and scalable service templates.
• Familiarity with testing disciplines (unit, integration, E2E) and setting up CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration experience with Product, QA, and SRE teams.
• Clear, structured communicator — especially in messy, high-pressure environments.

🌟 Nice-to-Have

• Experience in startups or high-growth environments where systems and teams scaled fast.
• Exposure to Kubernetes, caching strategies, load testing frameworks, and observability stacks.
• Ability to code-switch between strategy (roadmaps, hiring, culture) and tactics (code reviews, debugging).
• Prior success mentoring junior engineers and building internal engineering training/onboarding material.