Summary
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Lead product engineering across multiple projects in a high-trust environment where you will make day-to-day technical and product decisions, guide developers, QA, and DevOps, resolve technical disagreements, and ensure delivered features are useful, high-quality, scalable, and aligned with user needs.
Highlights
High-ownership leadership role with strong leadership backing, broad influence across engineering functions, and responsibility for delivering reliable, scalable, user-focused products.
Description
Location: Upaya Head Office, Thapagau, Kathmandu
We're looking for a Product Engineering Lead to own the day-to-day of how our products actually get built and run, across all our projects.
You'll be the person developers, QA, and DevOps come to when something needs a decision, and the person accountable for making sure what ships doesn't just work technically, but actually solves the problem for our users, and holds up at scale.
This is a high-trust, high-ownership role, backed by full support from leadership.
What You'll Own
Day-to-day decision-making.
Be the first point of contact across projects for product and technical calls, trusted to move things forward without waiting on leadership for every call.Outcome ownership.
Features you sign off on should be functionally correct, genuinely useful to end users, high quality, and built to scale, not just "done"Cross-team guidance.
Support and unblock developers, QA, and DevOps daily.
Resolve technical disagreements, clarify priorities, keep work movingProduct judgment.
Understand our users deeply enough to make sound calls on what's worth building and how, not just manage a backlogIssue response.
Be the point person when something breaks or comes up unexpectedly, coordinating the right people and driving it to resolutionQuality and scalability standards.
Set and hold the bar for what "good" looks like across all projects, not just your own
What We're Looking For
6+ years of overall experience: minimum 4 years as a software engineer, minimum 2 years in a team lead or leadership capacityDemonstrated ownership mindset.
You've been accountable for outcomes, not just tasks, beforeStrong technical judgment across the stack (web, mobile, or infra), enough to guide teams.Product sense: you can reason about what users actually need, not just what's requestedComfortable making decisions independently and being accountable for themOpen-minded and humble, someone who creates space for team members to speak up, disagree, and be heard, not just directsExperience working on products with real operational stakes (marketplace, logistics, fintech, or similar) is a strong plus
