Information Technology Engineering Manager

Confidential Hires; Kuwait City; On-site; KWD 18,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential Hires is building an ambitious online business and seeks an IT Engineering Manager to lead and grow the engineering team.

You will own the environment, shape architecture for scalable, low-latency systems, and work closely with product and business teams to deliver reliable, high-availability services. If you want to build with us and ship at scale, this could be the right move.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with code understanding.
• Deep knowledge of software architecture and system design.
• Experience building or operating high-availability, low-latency systems.
• Strong understanding of scalable and distributed architectures.
• Experience with cloud-native environments, APIs, services, observability, and system performance.
• A track record of hiring and developing strong engineers.
• Genuine people management capability, not just project management experience.
• Experience making technical decisions where there isn’t always a perfect answer.

Responsibilities

• Own the engineering environment and lead the team.
• Influence architectural decisions for scalable, resilient systems.
• Design for high availability and low latency from outset.
• Stay close enough to code to understand what is being built.
• Raise the bar for engineering quality, performance, and reliability.
• Hire engineers who make the team stronger and coach them.
• Create an environment where talented people can take ownership and grow.
• Collaborate with product and business teams without losing engineering discipline.
• Tackle technical debt before it becomes tomorrow's problem.
• Make sensible trade-offs between speed, scalability, and long-term architecture.
• Take ownership and drive issues to resolution.

Skills

Software architecture

Distributed systems

High availability

Cloud-native

Observability

Hiring engineers

People management

Architecture decisions

Performance tuning

Tools

Cloud platforms

Job description

We're building an online business with big ambitions, and we're looking for IT Engineering Managers who want to build with us.

Not people looking to inherit a finished engineering organization. People who see what could be better and build it.

You will have started your career in software engineering. You understand code, architecture, and the realities of building production systems. Today, you're just as comfortable growing engineers and leading teams as you are challenging an architectural decision.

You will think about what happens when traffic spikes. You will question where the bottleneck will be. You will care about milliseconds, resilience, and what breaks at scale. And when something needs fixing, you don't wait for someone else to own it.

Responsibilities

You'll have real ownership of the engineering environment and the people behind it. That means:

• Making and influencing architectural decisions for scalable, resilient systems
• Designing for high availability and low latency from the outset
• Staying close enough to the code to understand what is being built and challenge how it is being built
• Raising the bar for engineering quality, performance, and reliability
• Hiring engineers who make the team stronger
• Coaching good engineers into great ones
• Creating an environment where talented people can take ownership and grow
• Working closely with product and business teams without losing engineering discipline
• Tackling technical debt before it becomes tomorrow's problem
• Making sensible trade-offs between speed, scalability, and long-term architecture
• Taking problems from "someone should fix this" to "I own this"

Requirements

We care less about impressive job titles and more about what you have actually built. You'll likely have:

• A strong software engineering background and the ability to understand code
• Deep knowledge of software architecture and system design
• Experience building or operating high-availability, low-latency systems
• Strong understanding of scalable and distributed architectures
• Experience with cloud-native environments, APIs, services, observability, and system performance
• A track record of hiring and developing strong engineers
• Genuine people management capability, not just project management experience
• Experience making technical decisions where there isn’t always a perfect answer
• Startup, scale-up, e-commerce, marketplace, fintech, or other high-transaction online experience would be highly relevant.

The Mindset Matters

We operate with a Day 1 mentality. Stay curious. Move quickly. Question assumptions. Get close to the problem. Make decisions. Learn. Improve. Build again.

We want leaders with a strong sense of ownership who think beyond their job description and care about the outcome, not simply completing the task.

If something is broken, you help fix it. If something can be better, you make it better.

If the team needs to grow, you build it. And if the business scales faster than expected, you make sure the technology is ready.

If you want established processes, fixed boundaries, and a technology environment where all the difficult decisions have already been made, this may not be the right move.

But if you're energized by the opportunity to build, scale, challenge and own, we should talk.

This is a confidential search. Further details about the business will be shared with shortlisted candidates.