Engineering Manager

About the Role

We're partnering with a fast growing startup in Dubai building a new investment platform. They're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the team responsible for the core trading and investment infrastructure, reporting directly into the General Manager.

This is a hands-on leadership role — you'll own technical strategy and architecture while staying close to the code, balancing people leadership with genuine engineering depth.

What You'll Do

• Lead and grow a team of 20+ engineers, hiring and developing managers, technical leads and engineers
• Own the technical architecture for core trading systems including order management and execution, market data pipelines, and real-time portfolio infrastructure
• Drive engineering roadmap decisions balancing scalability, regulatory requirements and business priorities
• Stay hands-on through design reviews, code reviews and architectural decisions
• Establish processes for incident management, release governance and engineering scalability

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in senior leadership roles managing teams of 20+ engineers
• Proven experience building a trading platform — order management, execution systems, or market data infrastructure
• Strong background in distributed systems, microservices and cloud-native architecture (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Experience with low latency, high throughput systems
• This is an international search — we can only consider candidates currently at consumer investment or trading platforms

What's On Offer

• Fantastic total compensation package
• Relocation allowance, visa and medical included
• Direct influence over a product reshaping investing in the region
• A genuinely international, high-performing engineering culture