Engineering Manager - Backend

Your application and all hiring communication for this role run through the Techy Recruiter team. You will be the primary steward of Ajaib’s technical resilience. Your role is to bridge the gap between visionary business objectives and world-class system design, ensuring that our infrastructure scales ahead of our user base. Your Core Pillars of Impact 1. Architectural Stewardship: Drive the long-term technical direction for our high-traffic microservices. You will ensure our backend systems set the industry benchmark for observability, performance, and financial-grade security. 2. Strategic Orchestration: Serve as the vital link between C-suite objectives and engineering execution. You will manage complex stakeholder expectations, resource allocation, and the technical roadmap for our Digital Bank. 3. Talent Alchemy: You are a "Leader of Leaders." Through sophisticated coaching and mentorship, you will cultivate a high-performance culture rooted in accountability, technical excellence, and professional growth. 4. Operational Maturity: Refine engineering processes to increase innovation throughput. You will identify and eliminate systemic bottlenecks, ensuring the organization maintains "Blitzscaling" speed without compromising stability. Requirements You are a tech-native leader who has successfully navigated the complexities of large-scale distributed environments. Technical Governance: Authoritative knowledge of modern system design and distributed state management. You are skilled at navigating the complexities of large-scale backend environments, ensuring that our Java/Go services and SQL layers are architectured for maximum durability and sub-millisecond performance. System Design Mastery: Well-versed in the trade-offs of event-driven architectures (Kafka/RabbitMQ) and the orchestration of complex asynchronous workflows in a regulated financial environment. The Track Record: 8+ years in software engineering with 3+ years managing multiple teams in a high-concurrency environment (e.g., 30M+ transactions/users). Leadership Gravitas: Proven experience building and scaling engineering organizations of 30-60+ people. You lead through empowerment and technical credibility, not through hierarchy. The Communicator: Fluent in English. You can translate a complex architectural risk into a business-level decision for the Board of Directors. About Techy Recruiter Techy Recruiter is a boutique hiring partner for startups and scaleups across Europe and the Gulf. We run searches end to end and care about a clear, fair process for every person who applies. Equal opportunity We assess people on merit. All applicants are welcome regardless of background, and we do not discriminate on any basis protected by law. Your data We treat your information as confidential and use it only for this hiring process.