Engineering Hub Manager - Riyadh, المملكة العربية السعودية - Tamara

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About Us

Founded in 2020, Tamara empowers over 10 million people daily. We're pioneers, revolutionizing how people shop, pay and bank across the MENA region. We partner with thousands of merchants, from leading global and regional brands such as SHEIN, Jarir, Noon, IKEA, and H&M to small and medium businesses. Our rapid growth has resulted in success as we mark our Unicorn status. It's exciting, and this is just the beginning. It's more than a place to work; together, we are a customer-focused community, changing people's lives whilst achieving business results.

Your role

We're seeking an Engineering Hub Manager for our Riyadh HQ Engineering team. As the Hub Manager, you will play a pivotal role in leading the way to build cutting-edge platforms, facilitating seamless and scalable transactions.

Leveraging your expertise in payment, shopping, and banking systems, you will be tasked with steering the design, development, and optimization of our secure and robust payment processing infrastructure. Your goal will be to create unique experiences that only Tamara can provide.

With a proven track record of successfully managing dynamic, cross-functional teams, you will collaborate with a diverse ecosystem of talented engineers, designers, analysts, product experts, and other team members. Together, you will focus on system design, create innovative technical solutions, and dive deep into complex problems, ultimately revolutionizing the way millions of users shop, pay, and bank.

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.

Your responsibilities

• Leadership: Inspire and motivate a team of 20+ Engineers in multiple squads. Set the direction by aligning the team goals with the company vision and strategy. Build a healthy environment of trust and a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• People Development: Develop talent by ongoing coaching, mentoring and challenging. Make sure your team has the right skill sets to accomplish its goals. Give candid feedback frequently. Assess and manage performance of team members. Play a key role in helping us continue to attract, develop and retain great local engineering talent.
• Technical Ownership: Lead technical discovery of future work and guide technical decision making. Monitor technical health metrics and ensure the right balance between delivery and technical excellence. While the Engineering Hub Manager does not work 'hands on' it is important to be able to guide the team in the technical area together with the Tech Lead.
• Project Management: Help the team to break down complex topics into smaller, manageable tasks in collaboration with Product and UX. Manage internal and external stakeholders' expectations, communicate relevant information in a timely manner. Coordinate work with team-external dependencies. Identify, manage and communicate risks. Own the project management process of the team, but leave room for people to grow.
• Team Performance: Deliver on commitments. Ensure alignment of the team's objectives with the higher level organizational goals. Measure performance indicators and continuously improve effectiveness of your team.
• Team Building: Ensure the right sense of belonging, install a collaboration- and knowledge sharing culture, thereby also manage your team's budget which is provided to achieve these. Collaborate with Peers: Work closely together and align with your Engineering Managers, architecture board, as well as with the VP of Engineering.
  
  

Your expertise

• Minimum of 2 years in a Senior Engineering Manager or Head of Engineering role, managing multiple engineering teams of over 20 people.
• Comfortable serving in a manager-of-managers capacity, overseeing Engineering Managers and Team Leads.
• Demonstrated forefront leadership experience with a proven ability to inspire, motivate, and mentor team members.
• Proven software development background with expertise in relevant technologies (e.g., Java, PHP, Go).
• Understanding of modern development methodologies such as Agile and Scrum.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, cloud services, and containerization technologies (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Demonstrated ability to make strategic decisions aligned with business goals.
• Experience in attracting, retaining, and developing the next generation of exceptional home grown engineering talent in Saudi Arabia.
• Infectious motivation to thrive in a fast-growing scale-up environment.
• Background in Payment, Banking Systems, or Shopping.
  
  

Join the revolution

Tamara is a vibrant hub of exceptional individuals worldwide, with over 40+ nationalities committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We're proud of the wealth of cultural backgrounds that shape our teams, ensuring every experience is acknowledged and celebrated.

We seek self driven individuals, fuelled by curiosity, ready to take control of their professional and personal development. We're creating a place where possibilities are for the taking through career mobility, mentoring and cross-border collaboration. This approach has earned us a spot as one of the competitive tech companies to work for.

All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.