Head of Engineering
Sav Technologies Limited
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Posted on 29 Sep
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Experience
8 - 14 Years
Job Location
Education
Bachelor of Technology/Engineering
Nationality
Any Nationality
Gender
Not Mentioned
Vacancy
1 Vacancy
Job Description
Roles & Responsibilities
Technology & Architecture
Own the end-to-end technical architecture, infrastructure, and platform scalability. Drive robust, modular, and secure systems to support regulatory requirements (DFSA, SAMA, etc.).
Engineering Leadership
Lead and scale a distributed team of engineers (currently 10), instilling a culture of quality, velocity, and ownership. Mentor engineering leads and ensure hiring, performance management, and team design align with growth.
Strategic Product Partnership
Work closely with Product, Data, and Compliance to ship user-centric, scalable fintech products. Ensure tech strategy aligns with company goals e.g., launching investments, embedded insurance, and open banking-based automation.
Infrastructure, DevOps & Security
Oversee DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), ensuring uptime, scalability, and cost efficiency. Lead secure-by-design practices, periodic audits, and regulatory tech readiness.
Data & AI Enablement
Drive platform capabilities in data infrastructure and AI especially for spend analysis, fraud detection, and credit insights. Build a modern data stack to power ML and analytics use cases across the app.
Desired Candidate Profile
Have 8 12+ years of engineering experience, with 3+ years in a senior leadership or HOE role. Built or scaled tech in regulated FinTechs especially across payments, savings, lending, insurance, or investments. Are deeply hands-on with system design, API architecture, security protocols, and scaling infrastructure. Have in-depth knowledge of NodeJS based backend systems Have experience leading lean, high-performance engineering teams across time zones. Are fluent in tradeoffs between speed, security, scale, and compliance. Thrive in zero-to-one and one-to-ten phases and have worked closely with founders and investors. Bonus: Experience with open banking APIs, PCI-DSS/SOC2, UAE/KSA regulatory landscapes.
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Sav Technologies Limited
Sav is on a mission to power autonomous finance in MENA. We are building a unified platform that helps users save, invest, protect, and spend smarter all in one app. Backed by top investors and recently licensed by the DFSA, we re entering an aggressive growth phase across the UAE and KSA.
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