Engineering Manager

About almentor: We are the leading Video-Learning Platform in Arabic! Established in 2016, we produced over 1000 online courses for individuals, corporations, and government entities across Egypt and the Gulf. Our platform is a hub of knowledge, fostering lifelong learning and growth for individuals around the globe. We are a purpose-driven team. Our most important asset is an intellectual team that can innovate and execute. It’s what moves us forward!

Our Mission: 🚀 almentor is on a mission to increase accessibility to affordable quality education for Arabic-speaking communities.

Job Brief

Reporting directly to Head of Engineering, your role is to build & lead the Business Platform team to design and deliver innovative and scalable business users experiences, as well as multiple platform services (e.g., User Profile, Authentication) and solutions for our customers. Our Business Product is a suite of learning experiences tailored to thousands of employees in SMEs and large organizations. Our products play a key role in employees' career development and advancement.

We are committed to building software that is not only functional and reliable, but also beautiful and intuitive. Our engineers and designers work together to create products that are a joy to use, and that solve real-world problems in innovative ways. We believe in the Agile and XP methodologies, and we prioritize collaboration, communication, and continuous improvement in everything we do. We are embarking on an exciting journey of rebuilding our product and engineering organization to drive innovation and growth. Our goal is to create a world-class platform that delivers the best possible learning experiences to our users.

We generally look for people who are good problem solvers and have a passion to learn. We work with C# / .NET Core (Latest). Great engineers should be able to pick up new languages or tools easily.

Role Objectives:

• Design, and build systems and world-class learning experiences for our business products.
• Collaborate with product and design and play an active role in feature prioritization.
• Play key role in developing cross-org initiatives, hiring, ways of working, quality culture.
• Continuously improve DORA metrics for systems owned by your team(s).
• Continuously invest in improving our business reliability metrics.
• Collaborate with product and business partners to evolve our software systems, products, and services to better serve our customers.

Relevant Experience

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, preferably within Extreme Programming environment (TDD, Pair Programming, Simple Design, and Continuous Refactoring)
• 2+ years of hands-on technical leadership and people management of cross-functional, self-organized teams of multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Experience in Distributed Systems Architecture (Microservices, Event-Driven, and RESTful Services)

Why join us?

• Flexible work arrangements, including remote options
• Family Medical insurance
• Full access to a wide range of courses on our platform
• Our office culture is casual, fun and social