Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

• Full-time · \[City / Remote\] · Reports to the \[CTO / VP Engineering\]
• You lead a team of \[6–10\] backend and frontend engineers. You hire them, grow them, and
• make sure they ship the right things at a steady pace.
• \- Lead a team working in Rails, Go, Vue and React.
• \- Hire: define the role, run interviews, close candidates and onboard them.
• \- Hold weekly 1:1s, give clear feedback, set growth plans and run performance reviews.
• \- Plan delivery with product: break down the roadmap, commit to realistic dates, and
• \- flag risks early.
• \- Own how the team works: planning, code review standards, releases and incident
• response.
• \- Balance features against tech debt, reliability and security, together with the Solution
• Architect.
• \- Track team health with a few metrics, such as deployment frequency, lead time and
• change failure rate, and act on them.
• \- Stay technical: review designs, join incident calls, and pick up small tickets when it
• unblocks the team

Requirements

• \- 7+ years in software engineering, including 2+ years managing engineers directly.
• \- A background as a backend or full-stack engineer. Rails, Go or modern frontend
• experience helps you earn trust.
• \- Teams you have hired for and built, juniors you grew into seniors, and
• underperformance you handled fairly.
• \- Projects delivered on time across several teams and dependencies.
• \- Scrum or Kanban experience, without process for its own sake.
• \- Clear communication with engineers, product and executives, in writing and in
• person.

Preferred

• \- Managed managers, or a team of 10+.
• \- Grew a team at a startup or scale-up.
• \- Fintech, payments or marketplace products.
• \- Owned an engineering or cloud budget.

Benefits

• \- Medical insurance for you and your family.
• \- \[Remote / hybrid\] work and flexible hours.
• \- yearly budget for leadership training and conferences.

Engineering Manager

Dopay · Cairo, Egypt (Hybrid) · Full-time · Posted 2026-11-05