# Technical Director-(ENG|D.2) > Qode · Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam · Full-time · Posted 2026-06-21 **Workplace:** on_site ## Description Location: Binh Thanh Reports to: CTO Type: IT Outsourcing (Onshore/Offshore) Company size: 500-1000 Employment Type: Full-time Technical Leadership & Direction - Define and own the technical roadmap for your domain(s), aligned with group strategy and product goals. - Make and defend architectural decisions with clear rationale — balancing delivery velocity, scalability, compliance, and maintainability. - Set and enforce engineering standards: code quality, system design, security, and operational readiness. - Actively participate in design and architecture reviews across the broader engineering group. - Stay current with industry trends, tooling, and emerging technologies — bring relevant insights back into the team. People Leadership & Organizational Development - Lead multiple engineering teams (25+ people), providing clear direction, consistent feedback, and meaningful development opportunities. - Make people growth a primary responsibility — not a nice-to-have. Actively invest in the career development of every engineer in your function; track progress, create opportunities, and remove ceiling blockers. - Build and sustain a psychologically safe environment where engineers feel empowered to raise concerns, challenge decisions, share failures, and propose ideas without fear of judgment or reprisal. - Own hiring, onboarding, and retention for your engineering function — build the team you need to deliver. - Establish a culture of extreme ownership and accountability: problems in your domain are your problems, regardless of where they originate. - Identify and develop future technical leads and senior engineers; actively manage succession depth. - Work across cultural boundaries effectively — our teams operate across Vietnam and Europe. Delivery & Execution - Own the delivery commitments for your domain — scope, timeline, quality, and post-release stability. - Remove blockers at the team and organizational level; escalate when necessary with a proposed resolution. - Drive measurable improvement in delivery throughput and engineering quality over time. - Ensure systems under your ownership maintain production-grade operational standards: observability, incident response, SLAs. Cross-functional & Strategic Contribution - Collaborate with Product, QC, DevOps, and other technical directors to align delivery across the group. - Contribute to group-level technology strategy, platform evolution, and engineering hiring standards. - Represent the engineering function credibly with senior business stakeholders — translate technical complexity into business terms without losing substance. - Champion technology adoption — including AI-assisted engineering, automation, and modern tooling — across your teams. REQUIREMENTS Non-negotiable - 5–10 years of hands-on software development experience at senior, principal, or team lead level — backend-heavy, working on complex, distributed, or high-throughput systems. - 5+ years leading engineering teams, with direct management of 25+ people across multiple teams simultaneously. - Proven ability to own and drive technical direction end-to-end — not just advise, but decide and be accountable for outcomes. - Extreme ownership mindset — no blame-shifting, no bystander behaviour. If it's in your domain, it's yours. - Demonstrated commitment to growing people: a track record of engineers you've developed who went on to take on greater responsibility. - Fluent in both Vietnamese and English — you will operate in a Vietnamese-speaking team environment while communicating across a global, English-speaking leadership group. - Based in or willing to relocate to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Strongly Preferred - Experience working in distributed, multi-office engineering organizations. - Track record of introducing or scaling new engineering practices, tools, or AI-assisted workflows across a team. Technical Depth Expected - Backend systems design: distributed architecture, event-driven systems, high-availability design, data modeling. - Platform infrastructure awareness: deployment pipelines, containerization, observability, incident management. - Security-aware engineering - Comfort with modern engineering tooling and willingness to drive adoption. Benefits Competitive salary package MacBook and necessary working devices provided Health insurance 15 annual leaves Social insurance + 13th-month salary + annual performance review Monthly team building activities Birthday bonus, snacks & drinks Interview Process - 2-3 rounds (offline at office) LEADERSHIP PROFILE We are not looking for a manager who oversees engineers. We are looking for a technical leader who is respected by engineers — someone who can go deep when it matters, elevate the people around them, and take full ownership of outcomes without needing direction from above. The right candidate is: - Extreme ownership — takes full responsibility for outcomes in their domain. Does not deflect, does not wait, does not qualify accountability. - A builder of psychological safety — actively creates an environment where people speak up, surface problems early, share mistakes openly, and challenge up the chain without fear. - Invested in people growth — measures personal success partly by how much the people around them improve. Coaching and mentoring are not side tasks; they are leadership outputs. - Self-directed and proactive — identifies problems before they escalate, drives solutions without waiting to be asked. - Outcome-oriented — measures success by what ships, what works, and what improves; not by effort or activity. - Opinionated but open — holds strong technical views, defends them with evidence, and updates them when presented with better information. - Comfortable with ambiguity — operates effectively when the answer is not obvious and the scope is not fully defined. - A continuous learner — actively seeks exposure to new tools, approaches, and ideas; brings relevant insight back to the team. ## Apply [Apply at Qode](https://apply.workable.com/qodeworld/j/1480670691/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)