Engineering Manager

About the Company:

Tamara is the leading fintech platform in Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC region with a mission to help people make their dreams come true by building the most customer-centric financial super-app on earth. The company serves millions of users in the region and partners with leading global and regional brands such as SHEIN, Jarir, noon, IKEA and Amazon, as well as small and medium businesses. Tamara is Saudi Arabia’s first fintech unicorn and is backed by Sanabil Investments, a wholly owned company by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), SNB Capital, Checkout.com, amongst others. The company operates from its headquarters in Riyadh, with additional regional and global support offices.

About the Role:

We're seeking Engineering Manager for our team. As a EM, you will be crucial in leading the way to build cutting-edge platforms that enable seamless and scalable transactions. Drawing on your proficiency in payment, shopping, and banking systems you will be responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing our secure and robust software infrastructure to create unique experiences only Tamara can provide.

You are a driven, determined, curious team player, knowing that collective strength means we all win. With a positive outlook, you are solution-oriented–persevering regardless of circumstances, always finding a way through, no matter the challenges. You will effectively find a way to work with everyone through empathy and respect. You will be driven and comfortable with responding quickly with urgency, with the ability to change course without losing momentum and energy, resulting in great success.

Responsibilities:

• Architect innovative solutions for critical, complex and challenging problems by designing and developing highly scalable, available and reliable applications.
• Setup best practices and identify areas of continuous improvement of the product development life cycle.
• Develop roadmaps for system and product growth, ensure timely execution and quality delivery.
• Manage stakeholders like designers, business analysts and product managers by providing them delivery plans and estimates in an Agile environment.
• Create clear career paths for team members by regular & deep mentoring.
• Perform regular performance evaluation, share & seek feedback.

Qualifications:

• Experience: 7-12 years of experience in good product based companies and preferably product start-ups.
• Strong grasp of scalable web back-end, streaming, full stack development, good experience in handling production and performance issues and all genres of platforms technologies.
• Deep understanding of technologies and architecture in a highly scalable and available set-up.
• Deep understanding & expertise with highly transactional, large relational and complex web/desktop based systems.
• Experience hiring and growing a top notch engineering team, and scaling the organization. Start-up experience will be highly preferred.
• Solid understanding of business processes and the application of technology to implement and thereafter streamline them.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Hands-on experience in Developing, designing & scaling complex systems both horizontally & vertically.
• A strong vision and excitement for contributing in growth of an amazing product start-up.

Required Skills:

• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Hands-on experience in Developing, designing & scaling complex systems both horizontally & vertically.

Preferred Skills:

• Start-up experience will be highly preferred.

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