Engineering Manager - Financial Services

Team: Financial Services

Location: Cairo, Egypt, Alexandria, Egypt

Commitment: Contractor

Workplace Type: hybrid

About the role

Key Responsibilities

· Work with different stakeholders to establish a culture of technical excellence and be responsible for the success and personal growth of your team.

· Oversee engineering teams and their projects, ensuring they can deliver their best work by identifying and removing blockers and coaching teammates.

· Build robust and scalable software in Java.

· Help improve existing code quality through quality assurance practices and code reviews.

· Participate in brainstorming sessions and contribute ideas to technology, algorithms, and product development.

· Contribute to hiring the engineering team for the product you are responsible for.

Requirements

• Previous experience with digital products or in a similar product role at a FinTech company, digital bank, or payment provider.

• At least 3 years of experience as an Engineering Manager or Tech Lead within an engineering organization.

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  Extensive experience with cloud technologies, microservices architecture, continuous delivery, and modern human-computer interfaces.

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  Strong understanding of Agile methodologies.

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  Excellent leadership and project management skills, ideally with experience managing remote teams.

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  Solid software design knowledge with the ability to create extensible, reusable, and scalable solutions.

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  Demonstrated ability to prioritize, self-start, contribute under pressure, and meet tight deadlines.

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  Highly organized, creative, and critical thinker.

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  Comfortable working in an entrepreneurial environment.

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  Experience working with core banking software is a plus.

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  BSc/MSc in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.