Engineering Lead

Qrata matches top talent with global career opportunities from the world's leading digital companies including some of the world's fastest growing start-ups using qrata's talent marketplaces. To sign-up please visit Qrata Talent Sign-Up Client we are Hiring for: Our client is a high-growth, venture-backed fintech platform based in the GCC, backed by globally recognized investors. The company is on a mission to revolutionize consumer finance across the region by enabling users to spend better, save smarter, and invest effortlessly. Having recently secured full regulatory approvals in core markets, they are scaling rapidly with a diverse product suite. The company operates at the intersection of finance and cutting-edge technology, and is seeking an exceptional Engineering Lead for its technology function. Role Overview As the Engineering Lead, you will own architecture, systems design, data strategy, and security across a wide surface area including open banking, card processing, investments, insurance, and embedded finance. You will work closely with the founding team and lead a distributed engineering team that is solving some of the most complex challenges in consumer finance.Ideal for a candidate who thrives in zero-to-one environments and has previously built secure, scalable systems in regulated fintech environments. Key Responsibilities Technology & Architecture Own the end-to-end technical architecture, infrastructure, and platform scalability Guide technical decisions across savings, wealth, insurance, cards, and fraud/risk systems Drive robust, modular, and secure systems to support regulatory requirements (DFSA, SAMA, etc.) Preferred Certifications: AWS/ Google Certified Solutions Architect TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework)Engineering Leadership Lead and scale a distributed team of engineers (currently 10), instilling a culture of quality, velocity, and ownership Mentor engineering leads and ensure hiring, performance management, and team design align with growth Preferred Certifications: Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Strategic Product Partnership Work closely with Product, Data, and Compliance to ship user-centric, scalable fintech products. Ensure tech strategy aligns with company goals - e.g., launching investments, embedded insurance, and open banking-based automation. Infrastructure, Dev Ops & Security Oversee Dev Ops, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), ensuring uptime, scalability, and cost efficiency. Lead secure-by-design practices, periodic audits, and regulatory tech readiness. Preferred Certifications: Preferred Certifications: API Gateway Technical Support Establish and maintain Tier 13 support protocols for internal and customer-facing issues across mobile apps, APIs, and backend systems Build and scale a support engineering function to handle technical escalations, incident management, root cause analysis, and resolution SLAs Implement observability tooling to track application health, user behavior, and performance bottlenecks Ensure high system reliability and business continuity through proactive monitoring and auto-healing mechanisms Collaborate with Customer Support, Compliance, and Business teams to provide timely technical resolutions for user-reported issues Preferred Certifications: ITIL Foundations Incident and problem management Evaluate, negotiate, and manage relationships with external vendors providing critical infrastructure, tools, or services (e.g., cloud, KYC, card issuance, fraud detection, open banking aggregators) Lead due diligence, contract negotiations, and technical onboarding of vendors, ensuring alignment with product goals and regulatory requirements Define and enforce vendor SLAs, data protection agreements, and escalation processes. Drive performance reviews & cost optimization exercises with strategic tech partners. Maintain a centralized repository of contracts, integrations, service catalogs, an contact matrices Preferred Certifications: Familiarity with procurement processes and compliance reviews Experience and qualifications: Have 812+ years of engineering experience, with 3+ years in a senior leadership role Built or scaled tech in regulated fintechs-especially across payments, savings, lending, insurance, or investments Understand OWASP concepts and are deeply hands-on with an agile way of working across system design, architecture, development, security, and cloud infrastructure. Have experience leading lean, high-performance, remote engineering teams across Are fluent in tradeoffs between speed, security, scale, and compliance. Thrive in zero-to-one and one-to-ten phases, and have worked closely with founders and investors Bonus: Experience with open banking APIs, PCI-DSS/ SOC2, UAE/KSA regulatory Disclaimer: Naukrigulf.com is only a platform to bring jobseekers & employers together. Applicants are advised to research the bonafides of the prospective employer independently. We do NOT endorse any requests for money payments and strictly advice against sharing personal or bank related information. We also recommend you visit Security Advice for more information. If you suspect any fraud or malpractice, email us at #J-18808-Ljbffr