Product Engineering Lead — AI Platform & Delivery

Showcify, Inc.; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 420,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Inception42 is seeking a Product Engineering Lead to own engineering execution for an assigned product or major platform area. You will turn product priorities into production-ready software and help your squad deliver predictably with high quality.

The role combines technical leadership, team development, and delivery accountability, collaborating with Product, Data & AI, Platform, Security, and Delivery to move capabilities from backlog through release into reliable operation.

Qualifications

• Experience leading software engineers to deliver and operate a production product or major platform area.
• Strong architectural judgement in architecture, system design, code review, debugging, and production operations.
• Experience with APIs, distributed systems, cloud platforms, integrations, security, and observability.
• Proven backlog ownership, sprint execution, releases, and production readiness.
• Ability to balance product scope, engineering quality, speed, reliability, and technical debt.
• Evidence of resolving dependencies and driving cross-functional execution with minimal process overhead.
• Track record coaching engineers and establishing clear technical ownership and engineering standards.
• Clear communication with product, engineering, AI, security, and delivery stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own engineering execution for an assigned product or platform area, including planning, development, release, and production support.
• Lead and coach a product-engineering squad; set clear expectations for quality, ownership, and delivery.
• Turn prioritized requirements and acceptance criteria into a refined engineering backlog, estimates, sprint goals, and release plans.
• Guide architecture and implementation across services, APIs, integrations, user workflows, and reusable platform capabilities.
• Partner with Product and Data & AI to turn prototypes and requirements into usable, secure, observable production features.
• Ensure code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, release readiness, observability, and incident response are part of team execution.
• Own engineering risks, technical debt, product reliability, defects, and performance improvements.
• Resolve cross-team dependencies and contribute reusable capabilities to shared platforms rather than duplicating work.
• Track sprint and release outcomes, delivery predictability, and quality; surface blockers and trade-offs early.

Skills

Technical leadership

API design

Distributed systems

Production operations

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Observability tools

Security tooling

Job description

Inception42 is seeking a Product Engineering Lead to own engineering execution for an assigned product or major platform area. You will turn product priorities into production-ready software and help your squad deliver predictably with high quality.

The role combines technical leadership, team development, and delivery accountability, collaborating with Product, Data & AI, Platform, Security, and Delivery to move capabilities from backlog through release into reliable operation.