Engineering Manager (Remote)

We are recruiting for a late-stage payments company (2 Billion Dollar Unicorn) operating at scale across the Middle East. Millions of people use our product to pay, split purchases, and manage their money. This is a confidential search, so we share the company name in the first conversation. Three things worth knowing before you read further One day, four conversations, a decision. No take-home assignment. No six-week process where you chase a recruiter for updates. You block out a day, you talk to four people, and you get an answer. Genuinely remote within IST. Not hybrid. Not "remote-first with mandatory quarterly onsites." Our engineering team already works this way and the tooling and rituals were built for it, not retrofitted. Remote, IST hours What you will actually do Design and own APIs that carry millions of transactions a day Debug production incidents where the root cause is three services away from the symptom Turn half-formed product ideas into shipped features, including pushing back when the idea is wrong Make architectural calls, not just implement someone else's Write code that the person on call at 3am can reason about What we are looking for 3+ years building and running backend services in production, in any modern language Systems you scaled that held up, and at least one that did not, plus what you learned from it Practical cloud experience (AWS or equivalent, Kubernetes, Docker) Distributed systems in anger: Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar, including the failure modes Clear written and spoken English. Our team spans several countries and most decisions happen in writing. Useful but not required: frontend familiarity (JavaScript, Vue), early-stage startup experience, a payments or lending background. Our stack, honestly We hire for engineering judgement rather than syntax, and we have brought people across from Python, Node, C#, and Scala. That said, our core services are Java and Go, and you will be working in them. If you want to be told you can bring any stack you like, we would rather be upfront: you cannot, but we will give you the runway to pick ours up. The interview process 60 min - Code pairing - We build something together in your IDE, in a language you choose 50 min - System design - Architecture and trade-offs, drawn from problems we have actually hit 50 min - Technical deep dive - Your past work, in detail, at the level you care about 30 min - Culture conversation - Leadership, direction, and your questions for us Employment and logistics - India EOR with Base and Attractive Bonus Structure. ESOP starts Year 2. Full Time role with less than 5% attrition over the last 18 months. Applying Send your CV or a link to your work. If the fit looks close we will set up a confidential conversation within a few days, name the company, and answer whatever you want to know before you commit to the interview day. We welcome candidates from different backgrounds and paths into engineering. Good products come from teams that see problems differently. Also open to Senior Engineering Managers We welcome diverse backgrounds and perspectives - that's how we great products are built. If this role excites you, apply for a confidential conversation. Show more