Senior Engineering Manager

Much of this is informal leadership – you lead through trust and influence, not through the reporting line. This is primarily a people and delivery leadership role rather than a hands-on coding role. You'll bring enough technical depth to understand the architecture, ask the right questions and work closely with engineers.

About Sana Commerce

• Who we are At Sana Commerce, our values drive everything we do: Champions of Our League – We deliver lasting success, balancing quick wins and long-term value
• Supercharge Our Customers – We’re revolutionizing B2B commerce together, helping our customers to lead and succeed
• Determined to Grow – We embrace challenges, growing and raising the bar for ourselves and our industry
• Bold Together – We dare to be bold because we have each other’s back Job descriptions can be tough to interpret.
• Even if you may not tick all the boxes, we have ambitious plans and we encourage people who share our vision and look forward to growing with us.
• Apply now.
• At Sana Commerce, we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment because we know our diverse workforce is one of our greatest strengths.
• It all started in 2007, with a pizza and a plan.
• For almost two decades Sana has helped manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers sell online, deeply integrated with their ERP.
• Now we are building our next product.
• We're building a new, AI-native product for agentic B2B commerce.
• It gives buyers, sellers and AI agents the same answer – the right product at the customer's contracted price – in every channel, from the web shop to email.
• It's built by a lean, AI-native engineering team where coding agents are part of how we ship: small teams, large scope.

Responsibilities

• Leading product engineering Keeping a fast-moving product on track, turning the roadmap into reliable delivery across Buyer Channels, Seller Studio and Platform.
• Shaping small, autonomous teams with clear ownership and ways of working that suit a distributed organization. • Helping teams get real value from AI coding agents, with clear quality standards and metrics that show measurable impact.
• Building in reliability with the Platform team: observability, SLOs and incident management.
• Coaching team leads and senior engineers, and hiring and developing engineers across all locations.
• Leading our Egypt engineering community Being the local face of Sana and first point of contact for every engineer in Egypt, whatever their team.
• Holding regular 1:1s to support engineers’ growth and careers.
• Building a connected Sana community in Egypt and growing the team.

Requirements

• Must-haves 5+ years in engineering management, including 2+ years leading multiple teams or team leads.
• A background as a senior engineer or tech lead, with a strong understanding of cloud-native, API-first systems (Azure is a plus).
• A track record of delivering a new product to production and running it, with measurable outcomes.
• Hands-on experience with AI coding tools, yourself or through teams you've led, and a clear view of where they help and where they fail.
• Track record of developing engineers, and excellent written and spoken English.

Preferred

• Experience setting up or leading an engineering site.
• Experience with LLM or agent-based products, or with B2B commerce.
• Experience leading distributed teams across cultures, including through influence.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure cloud platform.

Benefits

• We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead engineering for our new product and to be the first leader of our fast-growing engineering community in Egypt.
• Product engineering leadership.
• You lead the engineering organization that builds the product across our teams.
• You manage the engineers and make sure a lean, AI-native group of engineers across the UAE, Ukraine and Egypt delivers quickly and with high quality.
• Egypt site leadership.
• Egypt is our main engineering hub, with a rapidly expanding team.
• Our Egyptian engineers work in different teams, each with its own day-to-day lead.
• You're their local leader and first point of contact: the person who builds the community, looks after their wellbeing and growth, and helps us grow the team.
• You'll partner closely with Product Management and Architecture.
• The chance to shape a new AI-native product and build a new engineering site.
• Hybrid working, 3 days a week in our Alexandria office.
• A global and customized onboarding program (9,1/10 rated by previous hires); Working closely with global leaders on strategic initiatives;