Software Engineering Manager (Dubai) (Dubai, United Arab Emirates)

Software Engineering Manager (Dubai)

Company Overview

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Job Summary

This role requires relocation to Dubai

We are working with a fast-growing B2C start-up looking for an Engineering Manager to take a key role in building and scaling its product and engineering organisation. We’re looking for someone who has built and shipped customer-facing digital products at scale and understands how strong engineering translates into a great consumer experience. This is a technical leadership role combining engineering management with significant technical depth. The successful candidate will operate at the intersection of an Engineering Manager and Staff/Lead Engineer, leading and developing engineering teams while remaining closely involved in the technical direction of the product.

The role is not focused on day-to-day ticket execution. Instead, you will provide technical leadership across the engineering organisation, establishing development patterns and standards, reviewing code and technical designs, providing meaningful feedback to engineers, and owning key architecture and system design decisions.

The Role

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Engineering Squads in this transformation. Someone who takes full ownership of engineering across the organisation and doesn't stop until the desired outcomes are accomplished. You will lead multiple product squads, set the technical direction, and be accountable for delivery, quality, and the growth of the engineering team. You will also:

• Lead multiple engineering and product delivery squads, taking ownership of delivery, quality and performance
• Set the technical direction and architecture for a large-scale consumer platform
• Work closely with Product to turn product strategy into high-quality, scalable features
• Stay hands-on technically, getting into architecture, design decisions and complex engineering challenges
• Drive the modernisation of large-scale legacy systems while maintaining platform availability
• Establish and maintain SLOs and engineering standards across product areas
• Improve engineering processes, developer productivity and overall product quality
• Introduce and measure the impact of AI tooling across the engineering organisation
• Mentor, develop and grow engineers and engineering leaders

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years of Software Engineering experience with a minimum of 2 years of managing teams.
• Strong B2C experience, ideally within consumer technology, marketplaces, subscriptions, loyalty or fintech-adjacent businesses.
• Proven experience building and leading high-performing engineering teams
• A genuinely hands-on technical background with strong architecture knowledge.
• Experience owning products from technical strategy through to delivery
• Experience modernising and scaling complex or legacy platforms
• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving start-up / scale-up environment