Software Engineering Manager Cebu

Who are Benifex? 💚💜

We are a fast-moving technology company, and one of the most successful providers of online reward and benefits solutions in the world. We believe that everyone deserves an exceptional experience at work, every day, and build workplace technology that makes this happen. Benifex’s mission is to build remarkable experiences that employees love. Today Benifex supports more than five million employees in over 3,000 organisations across more than 100 countries. To help us on our quest to be the best, we need brilliant people on board and that’s where you come in. 🚀

Why should you apply? 🌟

• People: play a pivotal role as the first Engineering Manager in our Cebu Product Engineering team and help in nurturing and upskilling our talented engineers
• Impact: help us build a world class engineering culture and organisation where engineers can thrive, and we build exceptional products
• Variety: a role that has a wide-reaching level of influence across engineering culture, delivery, people, process and technology
• Top 10 Employer, Sunday Times Best Places to Work Awards
• Work for a profitable, fast-growing market leader in the online reward and benefits space
  
  

Great Benefits

🏢 Office based during probation then a hybrid working pattern (3 days in office, 2 days WFH), we will try to be flexible and accommodate your needs

✈️ 25 days paid vacation leave + 7 days paid sick leave

🎂 Your birthday off

❤️ Two half day wellbeing days

🩺 HMO and Dental Coverage for you

🤒 Life assurance

👩🏻‍🤝‍🧑🏻 Referral bonus

Role Overview 🚀

This role will play a key part in shaping, scaling, and maturing Benifex’s engineering presence in Cebu. Working in close alignment with the EVP of Product Engineering, UK-based Engineering Directors, and other Engineering Managers, you will help establish sustainable team structures, embed strong engineering culture and ways of working, and support the long-term growth of the organisation.

Responsibilities🤘

Engineering Operations & Scaling

• Support the setup and scaling of engineering teams in Cebu, including team structure, role clarity, and growth planning.
• Help establish and continuously improve engineering ways of working, delivery practices, and operational rhythms.
• Partner with UK-based Engineering Directors, and other Engineering Managers to ensure Cebu teams are well integrated with global engineering functions
  
  

Leadership & Culture Building

• Act as a role model for Benifex’s engineering culture, values, and standards
• Create an environment where engineers can do their best work, with a strong focus on coaching, feedback, and development
• Support the development of future engineering leaders within the Cebu organisation
• Works closely with the Product Manager and Tech Lead to provide guidance and coaching to squad members on technical contributions, product roadmap and other areas. 
• Provides feedback and helps engineers grow their skills. Ensures adherence to development methodologies. 
• Proactively track engineer well-being, spot burnout, and suggest solutions. Report up to address systemic issues. 
  
  

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

• Work closely with local operations and office leadership to support engagement, wellbeing, and a strong engineering identity in Cebu
• Act as a local engineering leader, helping bridge global strategy with local execution
• Directly manages engineers, guides work, estimations and removes blockers. You are the first escalation point. 
• Standardise processes (e.g. agile ceremonies, code quality standards), but give squads autonomy for effective delivery. 
• Tracks tasks, maintains project velocity, and owns squad-level deliverables against the roadmap. 
• Use metrics to track quality and delivery. Encourage retrospective analysis for continuous improvement. 
  
  

What are we looking for? 🔎

• Experience contributing to the setup, scaling, or maturation of engineering teams, beyond simply managing an established squad.
• Experience working in distributed or multi-site engineering organisations
• Experience managing engineers in environments undergoing growth or change
• Comfort operating at both strategic and hands-on levels as teams and processes evolve
• Understanding Technical Requirements with a Focus on Quality: Translate product requirements into squad plans and capacity, while also having a keen eye for ensuring high coding standards, maintainability, and the prevention of technical debt. 
• Agile Expertise: Experience implementing and iterating on Agile processes (like Scrum or Kanban) including task breakdown, estimation, and sprint planning. 
• Quality Champion: Intrinsically motivated to produce high-quality code and instills a focus on maintainability, testing, and code standards within the team. 
• Results-Driven and Process-Oriented: Able to balance adherence to Agile methodologies and delivery timelines with a focus on continuous improvement. Familiar with using OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) to set measurable goals.
• Passion for Product: You care about WHY we are building product and the value it brings to users and HOW we build product in terms of quality and standards.
  
  

Even if you dont meet all of the requirements for this role, we encourage you to apply! We are looking for talented and passionate individuals who are eager to learn and grow. We also offer a variety of other roles, so please check out our careers page to see if there is something else that might be a good fit for you.

Our Interview Process✌

Benifex understands the need to have a fast and efficient process, the below will all be completed in the shortest time possible.

📞 Initial informal call with the Talent team

⏳ Interview with VP of Engineering

🧪 Main interview with 2-3 interviewers + technical assessment

🤩 Final interview with the Head of Operations (Philippines)

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome and respected. We believe that diversity and inclusion are essential to our success, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are a proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme. If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during the recruitment process, please let us know with your application.

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