Engineering Manager, AI Education Platform

Alef Education; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 400,000 - 650,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual performance bonus

Health and Life insurance

Enhanced leave policy

Job summary

Alef Education in Abu Dhabi is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead an agile team of developers, QA, and a product manager, owning a domain of the Alef Platform from research to delivery and success measurement.

You will shape architecture, oversee cloud-based services, and deliver rapid prototypes with emphasis on usability, reliability, and scalability. Strong leadership and hands-on coding are expected.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience.
• Active software developer architecting high-volume digital services.
• Proven capability in managing technology implementation projects and presenting to stakeholders at all levels.
• Demonstrable track record of evolutionary software architecture.
• Knowledge of Agile product management.
• Excellent code quality—readable, optimized, maintainable.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical authority in meetings with other departments and evaluate proposals.
• Hands-on technical leadership in development, operation, and improvement of services.
• Represent the technical team to ensure high-quality code aligned with goals and deadlines.
• Lead planning, design, and enhancements to product frameworks and architecture.
• Collaborate with product managers to understand user needs for new/existing services.
• Mentor team and drive knowledge transfer; manage sprint tasks and onboarding.

Skills

Fluency in English

Agile / Scrum experience

Team leadership

Backend development

Frontend basics (HTML/CSS/JS)

NoSQL databases (MongoDB)

Docker

Kubernetes

REST / Microservices

Git

CI/CD (Jenkins)

Education

Degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD (Jenkins)

MongoDB

Job description

Alef Education in Abu Dhabi is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead an agile team of developers, QA, and a product manager, owning a domain of the Alef Platform from research to delivery and success measurement.

You will shape architecture, oversee cloud-based services, and deliver rapid prototypes with emphasis on usability, reliability, and scalability. Strong leadership and hands-on coding are expected.