Director of Engineering

💰 Up to USD 12,000 a month

We’re seeking a Director of Engineering to lead, scale, and inspire my clients 45+ strong engineering organization. Reporting directly to the Co-Founder & CTO, you’ll take ownership of engineering best practice, architecture, delivery speed, and team development. You’ll provide the senior technical depth to balance strategy with execution, enabling the CTO to step further into a strategic role.

This role is pivotal: you’ll be driving high standards in a fast-moving fintech environment, building systems to satisfy stringent regulatory demands, and ensuring that they remain a first-mover in product delivery and innovation.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a distributed engineering team (currently 50+, across Morocco, Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi and beyond).
• Build scalable systems that comply with SAMA and other regulatory requirements.
• Set engineering standards, documentation, and processes that empower the team to deliver faster, better, and more securely.
• Drive architectural evolution across C#/.NET and Python, with a strong focus on backend scalability and mobile performance.
• Work with payments, card processing, and settlement systems (experience with integrators like Network International, or similar is a major plus).
• Oversee engineering budgets, recruitment of senior hires, and organisational structure as the team scales.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, problem-solving, and accountability across remote squads.
• Translate ambiguity into structure: bring clarity and order to a rapidly scaling business.

What We’re Looking For:

• 10+ years in engineering leadership with at least 3-4 years at Engineering Lead / Director / VP level.
• Hands-on technical depth: recent coding experience in C#/.NET (mandatory); exposure to Python and other open-source stacks is a plus.
• Strong fintech/payments experience in regulated environments (cards, gateways, settlements, reconciliation).
• Proven ability to lead large remote teams across multiple geographies and time zones.
• Comfortable in ambiguity: able to adapt, prioritise, and deliver in a fast-paced, shifting environment.
• Collaborative leadership style: approachable, empowering, and focused on team success rather than personal credit.
• Bonus: Arabic-speaking, or experience working across MENA.

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