# Software Engineering Manager

About the role Lean is looking for a hands-on Software Engineering Manager to lead and grow our Client Experience (CX) engineering team. This is a player-coach role: you'll be writing and reviewing production code, setting architectural direction, and leading a team - often in the same week. You'll own the platform components, APIs, and standards that define the quality of every client integration, and partner closely with Product to ship meaningful improvements to client activation and experience. This is a rare opportunity to build a team from the ground up into a genuine pillar of Lean's engineering organisation. About Lean Lean is the leading financial infrastructure provider in the Middle East. We power some of the region's largest companies with APIs that enable payments, account verification, financial data access, and other critical financial infrastructure. What started as the region's pioneering Open Banking platform and quickly became the de facto leader in account aggregation and payment initiation in the region is now becoming something bigger: a multi-product infrastructure company powering payments, data, and lending across MENA. We've processed billions of dollars i

- **Id**: 3977995
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/lean-technologies-software-engineering-manager>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- **Countries**: AE
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T14:17:23Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T16:26:27Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5852
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Financial Software & Embedded Finance, Digital Banks & Neobanks

## Company

- **Id**: 48955
- **Name**: Lean Technologies
- **Domain**: leantech.me
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/lean-technologies>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Technologies

- **Java** — Optional: no
- **React.js** — Optional: no
- **Spring Boot** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T18:47:32Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 48
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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