Senior Engineering Manager | Early-Stage Fintech Portfolio Company
Peak Xv Partners
Software Engineering, Other Engineering
Airport Area - Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates
Posted on Oct 3, 2025
One of our early-stage Fintech portfolio companies is building the Middle East's first truly digital wealth management platforms, and they are now looking to hire a Senior Engineering Manager to join the team and report directly to the Founders.
Responsibilities
- Own & lead all technology development end-to-end — from architecture to delivery
- Act as player-coach: writing clean, scalable code while mentoring and setting standards for the team
- Build and optimize highly scalable, secure, distributed systems that handle sensitive financial data
- Work with our core stack: React.js, Node.js/Express.js, GraphQL, MongoDB, MySQL, AWS, Kubernetes
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and operations to deliver client-facing features rapidly
- Create and enforce best practices across code quality, observability, and DevOps workflows
- Ensure uptime, reliability, and performance at scale in a regulated environment
- Help build and formalize engineering culture, hiring processes, and team structures as we scale
Qualifications
- At least 6–8 years of professional engineering experience
- Strong full-stack depth (Node.js + React.js)
- Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and building for scale
- Strong foundation in SQL + NoSQL databases (MySQL, MongoDB)
- Comfort working with REST + GraphQL APIs and security best practices
- Prior experience in a startup or scale-up environment
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
- Someone currently already in the region
Please apply to this role directly on LinkedIn. This is the only way to be considered for this role. Please do not DM any of our stakeholders about this position.