Engineering Manager: Lead High-Throughput Infra & Apps

DISCOVERED; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

DISCOVERED is hiring an Engineering Manager to join a pioneering start up in Abu Dhabi. You will lead the Infrastructure and Services team, stay hands-on with delivery, and shape software solutions to meet business goals.

You will mentor engineers, drive high-scale software development, and manage cloud infrastructure on GCP/AWS with Terraform. This is a leadership role requiring cloud and coding leadership.

Qualifications

• Eight or more years of professional software development experience.
• Minimum two years in a management or technical leadership role.
• Strong expertise with Node.js and TypeScript.
• Experience scaling cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code.
• Hands on skill with relational databases like PostgreSQL and in memory data stores like Redis.
• Experience using AI assisted coding tools within engineering workflows.
• Proficiency with Go or background in AdTech is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a high performing team of software engineers, guiding their career growth.
• Drive the design, development, and delivery of high scale software solutions.
• Provide technical direction for systems processing billions of requests per day.
• Actively participate in coding, architecture discussions, and code reviews.
• Partner with stakeholders to translate product requirements into technical solutions.
• Maintain high standards for software development, testing, and deployment.
• Manage infrastructure on GCP or AWS using tools like Terraform.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

Go

AI-assisted coding

Leadership

Tools

Terraform

AWS

GCP

PostgreSQL

Redis

Job description

DISCOVERED is hiring an Engineering Manager to join a pioneering start up in Abu Dhabi. You will lead the Infrastructure and Services team, stay hands-on with delivery, and shape software solutions to meet business goals.

You will mentor engineers, drive high-scale software development, and manage cloud infrastructure on GCP/AWS with Terraform. This is a leadership role requiring cloud and coding leadership.