Software Engineering Manager - Martech

We are looking for a highly talented Software Engineering Manager to join our team in Riyadh. If you are looking for a place where you can gain hands-on and team management experience and create direct impact, then this may be the place for you! An ideal candidate will have a track record as a significant individual contributor as well as a strong team player.

Responsibilities:

• Defining the strategic direction of your team and you will contribute to the technical strategy for the entire Hungerstation consumer products.
• You will guide and coach an exceptional team of engineers, mentoring them in technical and non-technical aspects and lead them to build stable, scalable and reliable features and services.
• You will help them to shape their individual careers and grow the team to become more self organised, more agile and more autonomous.
• You establish and grow the right Engineering Practices with your team (e.g. TDD, CI/CD, Agile Methodologies, etc.) in order to improve the engagement of your team, the speed of delivery and the quality of the features and services you own.
• Together with a product manager you will lead the projects your team owns, this includes stakeholder and dependency management, creating roadmaps, alignment, and cost management.
• You’ll play an active role in evolving our overall architecture, especially for those systems and products owned by your team.
• Scaling different processes of the organization such as engineering hiring and onboarding.

Requirements

• You have more than 8 years of overall experience with no less than 2 years of experience leading a team.
• You work hand in hand with your team to identify needed change, creating a vision to guide the change through inspiration, and executing the change.
• You know how to coach or mentor your team, how to evolve the team structure and processes using Agile methodologies and you have a track record of hiring the best international talent for your team.
• Good understanding of product and business KPIs and how to translate those into goals using the OKR framework. You are good in managing project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
• You know the right frameworks, practices and approaches for solving complex problems on a technical and organizational level.
• You’ve played a major role building complex, high-quality applications, and have a strong knowledge of Domain Driven Design and microservice architecture.
• You’re expert in selecting from best practice Design Patterns and Design Principles when building your Software Architectures and Algorithms.
• Strong knowledge of databases and their tradeoffs, like Postgresql, MySQL and NoSQL.
• As a manager of software engineers you have hands-on programming experience (using Golang, Java, RoR, Swift, or Kotlin) as well as a solid knowledge of designing and creating cloud based, distributed and scalable system architectures.
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills.