Engineering Manager

Meet Landmark Digital – we're part of the Landmark Group, one of the largest retail and hospitality organisations in the Middle East, North Africa and India. We're guardians of the group's digital arm which encompasses Enterprise and E-commerce Tech, Product Management, User Design, Omni Operations, Customer Experience, Loyalty, Content Production, Studio, Growth and MarTech, Finance and HR functions. With a futuristic outlook we strive to make the digital experience of our customers seamless.

Headquartered in Dubai, UAE, we're currently driving the digital experience for eight industry-leading brands in eight geographies,and rapidly expanding our footprint across new territories and functions. Join us, and you'll be part of the Middle East's biggest bricks-to-clicks success story, that registers over 100% growth year-on-year.

Agile Work Culture

Within the digital function, you'll be hands-on from day one, working in squads to make independent decisions and game-changing contributions that directly impact millions of customers. You'll collaborate every day with teammates from 20+ nationalities, across Dubai, India, Europe and the US.

Space for Excellence

Landmark Digital has a dedicated and growing software development centre in Bangalore, India, where we incubate, design and optimise our products and experiences. We also offer the option to work remotely for certain key roles.

Focus on Learning & Growth

Excellent remuneration and perks are part of the package, but we also budget ample time and resources for training and upskilling.

Fun at Work

You'll enjoy our well-equipped break-rooms (FIFA and pool are huge favourites), team events, celebrations and a host of other amenities.

Job Responsibilities:

1. Provide guidance on developing cloud-native web applications.
2. Lead the architecture, design, and delivery of enterprise grade microservices
3. Deliver assigned projects within budgeted time, cost and agreed quality standards in Agile Scrum environment
4. Partner with Product Management, Architects, Operations, other delivery teams and Release Management to ensure effective launch and delivery of projects to satisfy business needs
5. Lead teams to ensure project delivery success
6. Apply best-practices and coding patterns that ensure world-class solutions that are maintainable, modular, and of high code-quality
7. You work with designers, business analysts, and product managers to estimate and plan projects in an Agile environment.
8. Help define Technical Roadmap and own the entire product delivery end to end.
9. Create a culture that insists on meeting expectations and delivering value
10. Drive automated solutions that enable better efficiency and process improvement
11. Grow and manage the skills and talent in the team
12. Manage communication cross-functionally and escalate promptly as issues arise
13. Take responsibility for ensuring customer satisfaction during project delivery
14. Excellent problem-solving skills

You Must Have:

1. Bachelor's degree with 12 – 15 years related experience, of which at least 8+ years in development, 4+ years of Engineering Management role and leading scrum teams.
2. Experience in micro service architecture, domain driven design, and RESTful Services using languages such as Java, Node, or Go
3. Experience working in a distributed/cloud-based environment (e.g. Azure, Amazon, Rackspace, GCP etc.)
4. Exposure to continuous integration, unit testing, static analysis, and automated integration tests. Continuous delivery experience preferred.
5. Experience in eCommerce domain is a plus
6. Strong hands-on knowledge and experience in design and coding
7. Hands on experience in Java, J2ee technologies.
8. Experience with Web applications development using Java and MVC
9. Experience in managing and rolling out React Native, Android and iOS applications.
10. Experience with massive-scale performance and scalability engineering
11. Must have extensive experience managing projects with Agile Scrum methodology
12. Must be confident, highly motivated and passionate about delivery and customer satisfaction