Engineering Manager
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 9, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 5, 2026. Property Finder Group scores A on the Alion truth index.
Property Finder is the leading property portal in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, dedicated to shaping an inclusive future for real estate while spearheading the region’s growing tech ecosystem. At its core is a clear and powerful purpose: To change living for good in the region.
Founded on the value of great ambitions, Property Finder connects millions of property seekers with thousands of real estate professionals every day. The platform offers a seamless and enriching experience, empowering both buyers and renters to make informed decisions. Since its inception in 2007, Property Finder has evolved into a trusted partner for developers, brokers, and home seekers. As a lighthouse tech company, it continues to create an environment where people can thrive and contribute meaningfully to the transformation of real estate in MENA.
Role Summary
We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a full-stack team building the region's leading property marketplace. Your team will own high-traffic, consumer-facing products, from the Next.js web experience to the TypeScript and Go services behind it, where latency, reliability and cost efficiency directly shape the experience of millions of buyers, renters and agents. You'll be accountable for the team's people, delivery and technical health. You'll also stay close enough to the code to make sound technical calls and to influence architecture beyond your team.
Key Responsibilities
Own delivery: turn product strategy into a realistic plan, sequence work to ship value early and often, manage scope and risk, and keep stakeholders informed
Shape the roadmap with product managers and designers, bringing engineering's view on feasibility, cost and opportunity
Set and uphold technical direction across the stack with your senior engineers. That covers service design and API boundaries, frontend architecture and web performance, code and design review standards, and the evolution of existing Go services alongside new TypeScript development
Drive operational excellence: monitoring, alerting, on-call, incident response, SLOs, and continuous improvement of reliability, performance and cost
Build a data-informed team culture that uses production metrics, experiments and user behaviour to decide what to build next and to judge what has shipped Work across engineering teams, including mobile, platform and data, to resolve dependencies and contribute to engineering-wide standards and best practices
Stay hands-on where it gives the most leverage (design reviews, code reviews, prototypes, unblocking critical work) without becoming the team's bottleneck
Lead, coach and grow a team of full-stack engineers through regular 1:1s, clear expectations, candid feedback, performance reviews and career development
Own hiring for the team, from defining roles to running interview loops and closing candidates, with a high and consistent bar
Desired Experience
8+ years of software engineering experience across frontend and backend, with significant time on high-traffic, consumer-facing systems
2+ years leading engineering teams as an engineering manager or team lead, including direct people management (1:1s, performance, career growth) and hiring A solid hands-on background in TypeScript (Node.js) and React/Next.js, strong enough to guide architecture and hold a high bar in code and design reviews.
Familiarity with Go is a plus Experience with microservice architectures: API design (REST/gRPC), service boundaries and inter-service communication patterns
Experience with AWS and containerised deployments, and with data stores and search (MySQL/PostgreSQL, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, Redis)
A track record of delivering complex products predictably in ambiguous environments, with a pragmatic approach to planning, estimation and risk
Strong grounding in observability and reliability: SLOs, incident management, post-mortems and reliability improvement
Excellent communication with engineers, non-technical stakeholders and senior leadership
Nice to have
Experience leading teams that integrate AI/LLM-backed features into production, including managing the latency, quality and cost of model calls
Experience with event-driven architectures, edge computing (Lambda@Edge, CDN-level logic) or multi-region systems
Experience with SEO-critical web applications, internationalisation and right-to-left (Arabic) layouts
Experience in marketplace, classifieds, or other two-sided platform products Experience building a team from scratch or scaling one through rapid growth
How You Lead
You build ownership: engineers on your team understand the why, own outcomes beyond their tickets and follow through
You give clear, candid feedback, invest in people's growth, and address performance issues early and fairly
You make decisions with data and explain trade-offs clearly to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
You protect the quality bar in code review, design review and production, while keeping the team shipping
You're pragmatic: you know when to invest in scale and when to ship the simple thing, and you can quantify the cost of both
Our promise to talent
At Property Finder, we believe talent thrives in an environment where you can be your best self. Where you are empowered to create, elevate, grow, and care. Our team is made up of the best and brightest, united by a shared ambition to change living for good in the region. We attract top talent who want to make an impact. We firmly believe that when our people grow, we all succeed.
Property Finder Guiding Principles
Think Future First
Data Beats Opinions, Speed Beats Perfection
Optimise for Impact
Act Like An Owner
The Biggest Risk is Taking no Risk at All