Engineering Director

Responsibilities • Define and maintain the technical strategy, system architecture, and engineering roadmap in alignment with the global product roadmap. • Design and oversee scalable, multi-tenant, API-first, and event-driven platforms, while standardizing shared services and reusable components. • Build, lead, and develop high-performing engineering teams by setting hiring standards, defining career paths, and promoting a culture of ownership, documentation, and quality. • Ensure platform reliability and code quality through strong observability practices, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and leadership during incidents and root cause analyses. • Enforce security and compliance standards, including privacy-by-design principles, role-based access control, encryption, and secure software development lifecycle practices. • Manage engineering budgets effectively, optimizing cost, performance, capacity planning, and system resilience. • Enhance developer experience and productivity through improved tooling, documentation, AI-assisted development, and performance metrics. • Govern the use of AI and LLM tools across engineering workflows, including coding, reviews, testing, and documentation, while measuring impact and effectiveness. • Establish and execute robust delivery frameworks, including design reviews, launch readiness checklists, architecture documentation, and post-launch reviews with documented outcomes and postmortems. Qualifications • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field. • 10+ years of experience in SaaS, fintech, e-commerce, or large-scale digital platforms, including at least 2 years in a senior engineering management role. • Native-level proficiency in Arabic and English, with strong executive-level written and verbal communication skills. • Proven experience designing and operating large-scale architectures, including microservices, APIs, SDKs, streaming systems, and strong tenant isolation models. • Deep expertise in site reliability engineering and security practices, including SLOs, error budgets, observability, and secure SDLC methodologies. • Strong knowledge of cloud platforms and tooling, including AWS, Azure, or GCP, containerization and orchestration technologies, infrastructure as code, and modern CI/CD pipelines. • Demonstrated delivery discipline through structured documentation, outcome-driven roadmaps, and regular technical and business reviews. • Proven experience in building and scaling engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, and succession planning. • Strong fluency in AI and LLM technologies, with experience governing their use to improve productivity and quality at scale. \r\nRequired Skills • CI/CD • Technical • Architecture \r\nJob Details • Location: Amman - Jordan • Industry: Information & Communication Technologies • Job Type: Full-Time • Degree: Bachelor • Experience: 10+ • Nationality: Unspecified