Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Software Development Manager role stands out in SaaS because it sits at the intersection of product delivery and engineering enablement in a cloud software provider serving mid market and enterprise accounting teams. The remit spans quality, customer experience, and business impact, which are recurring themes in subscription software where retention and trust are shaped by reliability as much as features.
For a long term SaaS engineering career, the role offers practice in the operating system behind predictable releases: backlog stewardship, agile delivery, and cross functional decision making with product and operations. The emphasis on metrics, transparency, and data informed tradeoffs maps closely to how mature SaaS organisations run continuous improvement across performance, usability, and supportability. The expectation to remain lightly hands on also helps maintain technical credibility while building leadership range.
This position fits managers who enjoy coaching and developing engineers while still engaging in design reviews and critical technical discussions. It will suit someone comfortable translating between stakeholder goals and implementation details, especially in environments that value structured thinking and clear communication. It is also a strong match for leaders who want to deepen experience partnering beyond engineering, including support and professional services.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Gappify is looking for an Engineering Manager in the Philippines. The candidate will be a hands-on leader who will also be responsible for leading a team of engineers to ensure the software products we release have high quality, drive business impact and are delightful to use.
The right candidate will be an experienced People Manager who loves to coach and develop individuals, aligning to their strengths, will be an energetic, passionate, strategic voice, and partner with the various business units such as support, and professional services.
And at Gappify, we empower each business unit with the flexibility of applying hybrid model with a 6:00 am - 3:00 pm shift.
- Application Deadline
- February 28, 2026
- Department
- Engineering
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Location
- Manila
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
- Compensation
- ₱175,000 - ₱190,000 / month
- Reporting To
- Serge Kurenkov
What You Will Do:
- Code up to 10% of the time
- Manage backlog, technical solutions, and the delivery for a scrum team.
- People management of the engineering team.
- Provide technical expertise and leadership to the team.
- Promote software development best practices, agile development, and cross-team collaboration.
- Continuously improve the quality of code not only for yourself and other engineers on the team.
- Lead and participate in critical technical, design, and product discussions with leaders across our engineering, product, and operations teams.
- Manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team.
- Advance the strategy and execution of the Engineering org while partnering with Product to ensure we release the best quality and most impactful products.
- Take a data-driven approach to help understand and influence the customer experience, the business impact of our customers and ease of executing our products.
- Manage and communicate processes and metrics to enable highly transparent, credible and impactful functions.
- Lead and coach your team to have big results through career, skill and personal development.
- Grow the team.
- Work Load Preview: 15% Team Management, 15% Stakeholder's Management, 25% Eng/Tech direction, 25% escalation and design/code reviews, 10% Coding and 10% Devops
What You Will Bring to the Team:
- 4+ years of people management experience.
- 10+ years of software development experience overall.
- Must possess and apply deep, hands-on knowledge of design patterns (GoF, Enterprise, Integrations) to guide the team's practical implementation and architectural decisions.
- Extensive experience of running teams in an agile environment.
- Proficient understanding of mainstream technologies such as Java or PHP, JS, Angular or React or VueJS, RDBMS, NOSQL etc.
- Plus: Strong experience delivering solutions using cloud technologies such as AWS or Google Cloud.
- Strong enterprise experience understanding how to build products that serve B2B Mid-Market and Enterprise segments
- A structured and detail-oriented thinker. You’re as comfortable solving conceptual problems and creating frameworks to refine a team’s thinking as you are getting into the weeds to understand how things work.
- Strong communication skills. You can move seamlessly between conversing with engineers or frontline ops employees and lead presentations with senior executives.
- Solid technical foundation with relevant experience in SDLC, development best practices, and DevOps processes
- Plus: Entrepreneurial self-starter. You thrive in a fast-moving environment and are independently capable of seeking information, corralling resources, and delivering results without waiting for direction
- Amenable to work in a hybrid working arrangement.
Life at Gappify:
Gappify is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages people of all backgrounds to apply for positions for which they are qualified. We proudly welcome unique perspectives and do not tolerate any form of discrimination.
Gappify offers full-time Philippine employees HMO coverage on Day 1, paid time-offs, and subsidies for Medical Coverage and Learning and Development.
About Gappify
Gappify, founded in 2016, is a cloud-based software provider of accrual automation solutions for mid-market and enterprise accounting teams. The company is headquartered in New York City with offices in Berkeley, CA, Washington, D.C., and Manila, Philippines. Our team consists of accountants and CPA’s from Big Four public accounting firms, software innovators, and strategic advisors from some of the largest and most recognized technology companies in the world.
Our Hiring Process
Stage 4:Hiring Manager Interview
Stage 5:Director Interview
Stage 2:Technical Interview
Stage 4:Hiring Manager Interview
Stage 5:Director Interview
Stage 2:Technical Interview
Stage 4:Hiring Manager Interview
Stage 5:Director Interview
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