Engineering Manager

Alef Education; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual flight allowance

Annual performance bonus

Education allowance

Health and Life insurance

Enhanced leave policy

Job summary

Alef Education is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead an agile team of developers, QA, and a product manager. You will own a domain of the Alef Platform, guiding research, development, and delivery while measuring success and iterating quickly to improve user experience.

You will oversee architecture, collaboration with designers, and production code delivery, ensuring high accessibility, scalable architecture, and robust documentation. Strong leadership and English fluency are essential.

Qualifications

• Must have strong leadership and mentoring skills.
• Experience designing and evolving high-volume software systems.
• Excellent communication with stakeholders at all levels.
• Proven ability to manage tech projects and delivery timelines.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical authority and leadership across product teams.
• Lead research, development, and delivery within the Alef Platform domain.
• Ensure code quality, accessibility, and testing standards across teams.
• Collaborate with product managers to translate user needs into scalable solutions.
• Guide frontend/backend teams and maintain documentation and KT.

Skills

Fluent English

Strong communication

Leadership

DevOps

Education

CS/SE degree

Tools

MongoDB

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD (Jenkins)

Job description

Who we are

Founded in 2016 Alef Education ALEFEDT on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange is an award-winning AI powered learning solutions provider redefining K to 12 education Headquartered in Abu Dhabi the company serves approximately 2 0 million students and 84 000 educators across 19 000 schools in the UAE Indonesia and Morocco Its flagship Alef Platform delivers personalized learning experiences that enhance student engagement and outcomes while its supplemental solutions Alef Pathways Abjadiyat and Arabits extend learning across subjects and languages Through its innovative use of artificial intelligence data insights and culturally relevant content Alef Education is transforming teaching and learning to advance equity access and excellence for every student

About The Role

The Engineering Manager will be leading an agile team consisting of developers QA and a product manager from the product team A team owns a domain from Alef Platform and EM will be responsible for everything within that domain right from research development and delivery to measuring success and taking course corrective actions An Engineering Manager at Alef will oversee the creation and maintenance of the company s network and other web-related systems and be responsible for defining the overall structure of a program or system They will work closely in teams using the latest cloud and digital technologies to make rapid and meaningful improvements Keeping a relentless focus on user needs they will make the ALEF systems easier to use and help teams do the things they need to do

Key responsibilities

Provide technical authority in meetings with other departments evaluate technical proposals from suppliers and implementation recommendations to stakeholders Provide Hands-on technical leadership in the development operation and improvement of services Represent the technical team in collaboration with the wider team to ensure high-quality code is delivered in line with the project goals and delivery cycles In particular the TA will work closely with designers and production managers to deliver rapid prototypes as well as production code for which the TA will ensure high accessibility standards are upheld Lead planning design selections implementation and enhancements to the frameworks used for the product Lead development of user-driven prototypes identify technical options inform architectural approaches working with team members to write tests code and documentation for new existing systems Collaborate with product managers to understand user needs for new existing services Collaborate with delivery teams breaking technical requirements down identify API requirements for integration with internal external systems Hands-on backend development support when required Informing back-end and full-stack development Guiding front-end development wherever relevant Ensuring the upholding of QA and automation standards Actively engaged in the authoring and or maintenance of product technical documentation wherever required Actively involved in the tracking documentation maintenance and refinement of the team s day-to-day sprint tasks wherever required Responsible for ensuring technical onboarding knowledge transfer KT when team members join leave Responsible for leading the drive towards innovation and growth within the team identification of knowledge growth areas direct mentorship of team members sponsoring team members to acquire nurture required skills in core competency important auxiliary areas where need is required e g through coursework hackathons etc capture and documentation of said knowledge within the team Proactively advise on best practices Assist in the budgeting process Manage the development of the team providing feedback and managing performance

What we offer

• Annual flight allowance
• Annual performance bonus
• Education allowance
• Health and Life insurance
• Enhanced leave policy

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related preferredMinimum 10 years of relevant experience
• Comprehensive and recent experience designing and implementing complex software systems, i.e. is an active software developer currently engaged in architecting and building high-volume digital services.
• Proven capability in managing technology implementation projects and in presenting to/working with stakeholders at every level of seniority.
• Comprehensive and recent experience designing and implementing complex software systems, i.e. is an active software developer currently engaged in architecting and building high-volume digital services.
• Proven capability in managing technology implementation projects and in presenting to / working with stakeholders at every level of seniority.
• Demonstrable track record of successfully taking an evolutionary architecture approach to software architecture.
• Knowledge of Agile product management, in particular determination of vision, objectives, goals, and success criteria.
• Outstanding ability to develop efficient, readable, highly optimized/maintainable, and clear code.
• Experienced in database technologies mainly NoSQL like MongoDB
• Adequate understanding and experience in front-end web development (HTML/CSS/JS)
• Working knowledge of unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or Mac OS X
• Knowledge of the git version control system and workflow
• Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques
• Excellent knowledge of best practices of data capture from user interactions for analytics and business intelligence purposes
• Experienced in container technology like Docker and Kubernetes
• Understands Microservice architecture and REST
• Experienced in DevOps methodology and tooling of CI/CD like Jenkins
• Ensure all software built is robust and scalable
• High system administration and configuration management skills
• High level of experience in handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage
• Strong communication skills
• Fluency in English