We Are:
YouTrip is the leading and fastest-growing multi-currency payment platform in Asia Pacific. In 2018, we pioneered the region's first multi-currency digital wallet. Now, YouTrip is the #1 multi-currency digital wallet trusted by millions across the region, processing over US$15 billion in total payment value annually.
Our consumer and business propositions – YouTrip and YouBiz – empower individuals and businesses with inclusive, accessible, and affordable financial solutions. YouTrip has raised over US$110 million to date, including its recent Series B round led by global venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners—underscoring strong investor confidence in its mission to transform digital financial services across the Asia Pacific.
Recognised as World Economic Forum’s Global Innovator 2025, CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies (2025, 2024), and LinkedIn’s Top Startup (2024, 2023), YouTrip is dedicated to creating the next generation of digital finance services for consumers and businesses.
Valuing an entrepreneurial culture of diversity and inclusion, we are seeking driven individuals to join our fast-growing regional team as we push the boundaries of innovative fintech solutions.
Job Description: Software Engineering ManagerWe are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager with strong technical depth and proven people leadership. In this role, you’ll drive the development of highly scalable applications while managing one or two scrum teams. Your teams will be responsible for building end-to-end products, including backend services and front-end applications, used by millions of customers. You’ll play a key role in expanding our growing suite of services as we scale beyond digital fintech services.
Responsibilities:
- Mentor and manage a team of software engineers, setting clear goals, facilitating career development, and conducting regular performance evaluations.
- Oversee software project execution, ensuring on-time delivery while meeting quality standards.
- Stay hands-on by contributing to codebases, performing code reviews, and maintaining technical deputy to provide meaning guidance to the team.
- Define and drive technical direction, incorporating emerging technologies and industry best practices to improve innovation and scalability.
- Uphold engineering excellence by enforcing coding standards, fostering test automation, and continuously improving development processes.
- Foster a collaborative environment and ensure clear communication within the team and with cross-functional teams.
- Regularly engage with stakeholders, sharing progress updates, technical insights, and delivery outcomes.
- Coach engineers both technically and professionally - helping them grow into stronger, more autonomous contributors.
- Build a high-performing, agile, and self-organizing team that delivers stable, scalable, and reliable features and services.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of 2 years experience in team management, with a strong track record of coaching and mentoring diverse engineering teams.
- Expert-level proficiency in designing and developing high-performance, concurrent applications. Experience using Golang would be a plus.
- Excellent communication skills, with the capability to oversee squad-level priorities, deadlines, and project outcomes.
- Strong understanding of product and business metrics, adept at setting objectives using the OKR framework.
- Demonstrates a balanced approach towards project features and engineering excellence, with a solid product-oriented mindset.
- Background in working with distributed systems, parallel processing, and handling highly complex software applications.
- Have a good appetite for taking calculated risks, demonstrating the ability to weigh options and make strategic decisions under uncertainty.
- Understanding development lifecycle and collaborating with cross-functional and remote teams.
- Curiosity, creative outside-the-box problem solving abilities and an eye for details.
Top Skills
What We Do
YouTrip is a multi-currency mobile wallet with a prepaid Mastercard that enables you to shop online and offline worldwide like a true globetrotter.
As Singapore’s favourite multi-currency wallet, it's our thing to ensure that you pay hassle-free overseas with the best rates.
Whenever, wherever, we got you
• Pay with the best rates in 150+ countries
• Enjoy our in-app exchange with our 10 popular wallet currencies
Goodbye hidden fees
• Travel and shop freely with zero FX fees & no hidden charges
• Withdraw cash fee-less* from overseas ATMs (only available for Singapore app users in foreign currency for the first S$400 per calendar month, 2% fees apply thereafter)
It can’t get any safer than this
• Lock and secure your card instantly with just one tap
• Stay on top of your transactions with push notifications for every payment
Apply for an account now to get the best rates at your fingertips!
Our Story
Launched in 2018, YouTrip is a regional financial technology startup with a bold vision to empower everyone with a smarter and most convenient way to pay in foreign currency. As the trailblazers of fintech in Asia, we hail from Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, and the rest of Southeast Asia, and we are dedicated to being a trusted companion for all travellers and digital-savvy consumers. Powered by Mastercard®, YouTrip is a holder of the Remittance License issued by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. In Thailand, YouTrip is jointly issued and powered by Kasikornbank PCL.