Engineering Manager

Bayut & dubizzle have the unique distinction of being iconic, homegrown brands with a strong presence across the seven emirates in the UAE. Connecting millions of users across the country, we are committed to delivering the best online search experience.

As part of Dubizzle Group, we are alongside some of the strongest classified brands in the market. With a collective strength of 6 brands, we have more than 123 million monthly users that trust in our dedication to providing them with the best platform for their needs.

As an Engineering Manager, you present yourself as a strong leader, demonstrate deep practical engineering knowledge and have a proven track record for timely project delivery and project management. You'll be asked to harness your insight into technology and collaborate with Product Managers to make products that enrich the lives of our users, leveraging multiple cross-disciplinary streams to achieve our technological and business vision. Continuous integrations, auto-scaled rolling releases, creating event-driven service-oriented architectures are all part of the daily gig.

In this role, you will:

• Architect, design, and develop cloud software applications

• Collaborate closely with Product, Infrastructure, Design, UX, CLM and Strategy to deliver highest quality products
• Apply agile practices like test driven development, CI & test automation, collaborate with offshore teams for both architectural and delivery issues and cultivate technical backlog
• Analyse and remediate production issues, build in fault tolerance and operational readiness into the system architecture with a focus on operationally ready solutions
• Be a software guardian by owning non-functional requirements, architectural direction, quality of the code and addressing technical debt
• Ensure the highest standards of security for all our platforms and its underlying infrastructure
• Understand good product, design and UX principles

• Focus on Team health and instil a strong culture of engineering excellence along with mentoring the team on good code designs, patterns

• Hire and build a high performing team, continuously growing and developing the team and constantly raising the bar of engineering talent.
  
  

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent field
• Eight plus years of server/client-side software development experience
• Strong leadership capabilities (technical and non technical) including performance management, performance reviews and people management
• Experience in operations and managing live production applications, monitoring, remediation and incident management
• Solid experience with AWS and Kubernetes would be a plus
• Experience working on high-traffic and large-scale web products and strong understanding of scalability and high availability systems
• Experience with Agile Methodologies such as Kanban, Scrum and XP
  In-depth understanding of free and open-source software development, e.g. Python, Java, Javascript, Objective C and etc
• Strong knowledge and ability to mentor teams on design patterns, TDD, continuous integration and test automation
• Strong understanding of RESTful service design, API design and best practices for building resilient and maintainable distributed systems

• A fast paced, high performing team
• Multicultural environment with over 50 different nationalities
• Competitive Tax-free Salary
• Comprehensive Health Insurance
• Annual Air Ticket Allowance
• Employee discounts at multiple vendors across the emirates
• Rewards & Recognitions
• Learning & Development

Bayut & dubizzle is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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