Job description

Engineering Manager II responsible for leading a high-performing engineering organization within a fintech super-app environment, accountable for technical strategy, execution, and delivery across multiple complex product domains. The role involves managing 6–10 senior engineers across one or more squads, ensuring alignment with company-level objectives while driving architectural evolution of scalable, reliable, and high-performance systems. The position requires deep technical leadership in modern software engineering, including Java/Go-based systems, Kubernetes environments, CI/CD pipelines, messaging architectures, and cloud-native platforms. The Engineering Manager II partners closely with product and business leadership to shape medium- and long-term product strategy, ensuring engineering output delivers measurable business impact and ROI. Responsibilities include owning cross-team delivery plans, resolving complex dependencies, managing hiring strategies, succession planning, and ensuring balanced investment between feature delivery and technical excellence. The role emphasizes system reliability, scalability, and maintainability, while fostering a strong culture of engineering excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement. The Engineering Manager II is also responsible for mentoring senior engineers and aspiring engineering managers, driving leadership development, and ensuring a high-performance engineering culture within a fast-paced fintech environment serving millions of users across the GCC region.