Software Engineering Manager (Dubai, UAE)

Company Profile

Tenderd (YC S18) is an AI powered analytics platform for sustainable fleet operations.

Our goal is to help companies increase Utilization of their capital equipment and vehicles, optimize logistics, maintenance and reduce carbon emissions during operations.

We use innovative technology and transform equipment, vehicles or vessels to "smart" machines using equipment specific metrics to understand machines better. From real-time monitoring to predictive maintenance alerts, geofences to productivity metrics.

We are working with some of the largest E-commerce, Logistics, Energy and Construction companies across the globe in helping them reduce their operational cost using actionable insights and intelligence using AI.

What you will be doing

In this role, you will lead a team of engineers to design, develop, test, and deploy innovative products, tools, and services. You will work with business leaders to shape these products and to develop and deliver the associated software services, infrastructure and tools to enable rapid growth of this business. This requires thorough knowledge of what it takes to develop extensible technology. The systems you will oversee include critical customer-facing applications (desktop and mobile), low latency high volume throughput backend services, and integrations with various core products within Tenderd’s infrastructure. This presents a significant intellectual, technical, operational and organizational challenge.

A successful candidate will have an established background in developing systems, strong technical ability, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment. They also have a proven track record hiring and developing engineers, helping them meet and exceed their career goals. We seek an individual who is motivated by a fast-paced and highly entrepreneurial environment.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Take large, complex projects and break them down into manageable pieces, develop functional specifications, then working with the development leads, deliver them in a successful and timely manner
• Ability to design the best technical architectures and designs for new product development
• Define creative, high-quality roadmaps based on team strategy and vision
• Manage prioritization and trade-offs among customer experience, performance and operational support load
• Proactively identify and resolve issues to help the team meet strategic, financial, and technical goals
• Responsible for the overall development lifecycle of our platforms and solutions
• Manage complex projects with significant business impact within and beyond our organization
• Working with business and development teams to understand product vision and requirements
• Instill best practices for software development and deliver high-quality products on tight schedules
• Maintaining a high level of operational excellence with your team and across the engineering organization
• Hiring and development

Basic Qualifications

• At least 5 years' experience as a manager
• Experience partnering with product OR project management teams
• 3+ years of people management experience, managing engineers
• 3+ years of experience architecting and designing (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep, hands-on technical expertise in large-scale, service-oriented architectures
• Experience applying service-oriented architecture techniques to production use cases
• Experience with machine learning and familiarity with cloud computing
• Experience building scalable, available, and low-latency systems
• Experience in scaling new businesses
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Solid track record for delivery of high quality products