Dopay

Engineering Manager

Cairo
Level
Lead

Not stated in the posting: salary, work type, visa.

Open. First seen 5 November 2026.

About the role

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.

Requirements

What you'll do

- 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

What you need

- 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.

Nice to have

- 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

What we offer

- Medical insurance for you and your family.

- [Remote / hybrid] work and flexible hours.

- yearly budget for leadership training and conferences.

The team: Technology HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 3 open in Technology. 2 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in July: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Golang (2 of 3), JavaScript (2 of 3), React (2 of 3), Ruby on Rails (2 of 3)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on Dopay's own job board.

Salary context

86 other open postings titled Engineering Manager state a salary: median USD 200,000 to USD 250,000 a year.

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