Engineering Manager, Full-Stack

mylo is a fintech platform dedicated to helping millions of people and businesses thrive by providing accessible and responsible financial solutions. Whether you're purchasing a mobile phone, a new jacket, a flight ticket, a comfy couch, or even covering school tuition, mylo enables you to buy now and pay later at thousands of points of sale across Egypt. Born out of B.TECH-Egypt's leading electronics and appliances retailer with over 27 years of experience in offering buy now, pay later solutions-mylo brings a legacy of trust and innovation to the fintech space. All mylo products are fully Sharia-compliant, ensuring ethical and inclusive financial practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead, grow, and coach a team of full stack engineers, staying hands-on with architecture, code, and technical decisions rather than managing from a distance.
• Work closely with the Engineering team and Product Managers to define relevant features and requirements, and translate these into actionable technical roadmaps for the product development and delivery team.
• Own the technical health of the team's systems architecture quality, scalability, performance, and reliability of our Node.js and React applications.
• Prioritize features and ensure the team's effort stays aligned with mylo's overall technological strategy.
• Partner closely with other Tech Leaders (CTO, CPO) to shape the broader engineering direction.
• Drive the team's engineering practices in test-driven development, continuous integration, and automated deployment.
• Actively coach the team to solve complex problems, unblock them, and raise the technical bar through code reviews, pairing, and mentorship.
• Make informed build-vs-buy calls on tooling and third-party services, balancing speed, cost, and long-term maintainability.
• Champion clean, well-documented, secure APIs that other teams and services can depend on.
• Contribute to a safe, collaborative, growth-focused, purposeful, values-driven, and diverse team culture across the organization.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong hands-on expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, and React.
• At least 3+ years in a people leadership or technical lead role, managing or mentoring engineers.
• Proven track record of shipping and scaling full stack web applications end-to-end from API design and data modeling to frontend architecture and delivery.
• Deep knowledge of microservices systems and DDD, with the judgment to apply them pragmatically.
• Strong experience designing and operating RESTful APIs and service-oriented/microservice architectures.
• Solid understanding of relational and non-relational databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, or similar).
• Experience embedding test-driven development, CI/CD, and automated deployment practices into a team's day-to-day workflow.
• Comfortable evaluating technology choices and making build-vs-buy calls with a clear view of trade-offs.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) is a strong plus.
• Experience in fintech, e-commerce, or BNPL/lending platforms is a big plus.
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field - or equivalent practical experience.