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About The Role
As Vice President of Engineering, you will advance Wego’s evolution from scale-up to public-company-ready hyper-growth – accelerating product delivery and sharpening technical excellence across our 100-strong (and expanding) Engineering organization. Reporting directly to the CTO, you will execute strategy across multiple product lines, elevate distributed teams in S/SE Asia, and deepen organizational capability as scope/org scales.
About The Role
As Vice President of Engineering, you will advance Wego’s evolution from scale-up to public-company-ready hyper-growth – accelerating product delivery and sharpening technical excellence across our 100-strong (and expanding) Engineering organization. Reporting directly to the CTO, you will execute strategy across multiple product lines, elevate distributed teams in S/SE Asia, and deepen organizational capability as scope/org scales.
Key Responsibilities
Model product-engineering leadership. Optimize for the business and partner closely with Product, Design, and Data to turn customer insights into scalable solutions.
Scale teams smartly. Raise talent density, strengthen diversity, and deepen engagement across Singapore HQ and engineering hubs – while attracting and upskilling engineers in every hub.
Level-up leaders. Coach directors and managers, run succession plans, and create clear promotion paths so high-potential engineers grow into tomorrow’s leaders.
Harden delivery discipline. Institutionalize outcome-focused metrics, data-driven decisions, and post-launch accountability across all teams.
Champion “first-team” mindset. Align Engineering, Product, Design, Data, Commercial, and Support around shared goals; resolve cross-functional friction fast.
Own strategic outcomes. Lead critical product and technical initiatives and absorb scope delegated by the CTO.
Leadership behaviors and culture fit
Outcome-oriented, process-driven execution. Make decisions that maximize business impact and sequence delivery for value. Design, implement, and iterate processes that optimize for outcomes and continuous improvement.
Extreme ownership. You take end-to-end accountability and make problems yours to solve.
Data-informed action. You pair intuition with evidence, champion experimentation, and retire sacred cows quickly.
First-team mindset. You optimize for company-wide success over functional silos and build psychological safety across geographies.
Required Qualifications
15+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years leading VPE/Director-level organizations of 50-200 engineers.
Proven success scaling distributed teams and multiple EM/Director layers across time zones.
Track record shipping high-traffic consumer or B2B platforms through hyper-growth, scale-up, or public-company stages.
Fluency in cloud-native architectures; comfortable guiding teams working in Java, Go, TypeScript, iOS, and Android.
AI fluency. Solid grasp of modern AI/ML concepts – especially LLM-powered capabilities – and experience guiding teams to integrate them into products and workflows.
Demonstrated ability to embed measurable, outcome-oriented delivery practices.
Nice-to-have Qualifications
Domain expertise in travel, e-commerce, or other high-traffic consumer businesses.
Experience launching and building B2C products for Arabic-speaking markets.
Built or modernised dynamic pricing, revenue-management, or marketplace systems.
Compensation, perks and location
Competitive comp package (base + performance bonus + equity).
Full family medical + dental, and annual learning stipend.
On-site, five-day work-week in our Singapore HQ. Regular travel to regional hubs (≈10-20%).
Seniority level
Seniority level Executive
Employment type
Employment type Full-time
Job function
Job function Engineering and Information Technology
Industries Travel Arrangements
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