Senior Engineering Manager

Client of Salt; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Client of Salt in Dubai seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team of 5–10 engineers, driving strategic technical delivery and people decisions in collaboration with customers and cross-functional partners. You will coach managers and engineers, guiding architectural decisions and ensuring high-quality software craftsmanship.

The role emphasizes scalable distributed systems, microservices, RESTful services, and strong mentoring within an Agile environment, with a focus on achieving

Qualifications

• Eight years of hands-on engineering experience in scalable solutions.
• Four+ years of experience mentoring teams.
• Experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Proficiency with RESTful services and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with cloud providers and infrastructure management.

Responsibilities

• Drive strategy with cross-functional teams and convert into OKRs.
• Own technical output and drive KPIs for the team.
• Mentor engineers on practices and architectures to raise craft.
• Collaborate across teams to solve complex technical problems and align with design philosophy.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Mentoring teams

Distributed systems

Microservices

RESTful services

CI/CD

Agile

XP

Cloud platforms

Performance

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Role Overview

This is a leadership role in which your direct reports will be engineering managers and senior engineers of the team As a senior engineering manager you will be accountable for leading and growing a team of 5 10 engineers To excel in this role you need to drive strategic technical delivery and people decisions for the team by collaborating with cross-functional counterparts and stakeholders and considering inputs from various parties most notably from the customers You are also expected to coach and nurture your team including but not limited to managers who report to you In this role you will be responsible for building solutions evolving our business and leading its digital transformation optimizing the top-line and bottom-line

What You Will Do

• Drive business strategy along with cross-functional counterparts amp work with team members to convert that into OKRsWork closely with your counterparts to ensure the team s deliverables fit well into broader organization objectives Represent and be accountable for the technical output of the team and drive to improve specific business KPIs In-depth knowledge of relevant domain expertise to the team and drive engineering quality Work with multiple teams to solve complex technological problems bring insights and drive engineering strategy Mentor teams w r t engineering practices and architectures and strengthen the team by improving the ability to deliver outstanding quality of work and keep the high bar of craftPair with team members on functional and non-functional requirements and spread design philosophy and goals across the team

What You Will Need

• At least eight years of hands-on experience in building scalable engineering solutions including 4 years of experience in mentoring teams Experience working on production-grade distributed systems and microservices architecture RESTful services and CI CD Have worked across the various cloud operators and understand the benefits and tradeoffs of using different aspects of infrastructure management While you don t need in-depth knowledge of every moving part having a general understanding should help you decide what to use and where to use it Good understanding of distributed system fundamentals and ability to troubleshoot issues in a larger distributed infrastructure Experience with Agile teams and familiarity with extreme programmingExcellent understanding of interactive application development paradigm memory management performance resource optimizations database interactions concurrency and multithreading fault tolerance and monitoring of systems At least eight years of hands-on experience in building scalable engineering solutions, including 4+ years of experience in mentoring teams.Experience working on production-grade distributed systems and microservices architecture, RESTful services, and CI/CD.Have worked across the various cloud operators and understand the benefits and tradeoffs of using different aspects of infrastructure management. While you don t need in-depth knowledge of every moving part, having a general understanding should help you decide what to use and where to use it.Good understanding of distributed system fundamentals and ability to troubleshoot issues in a larger distributed infrastructure.Experience with Agile teams and familiarity with extreme programmingExcellent understanding of interactive application development paradigm, memory management, performance/resource optimizations, database interactions, concurrency and multithreading, fault tolerance, and monitoring of systems.