IT/ Engineering Team Lead

Job description / Role

GulfTalent is one of the largest and best-known online recruitment portals serving the Middle East region. Founded in 2005, it is now used by over 7 million individuals and 8,000 companies. To support our continued growth, we are looking for experienced and highly driven individuals with strong analytical skills and an entrepreneurial spirit to join our multi-cultural team, based in our modern headquarters at the heart of Dubai Media City.

• Managing the entire software development life cycle including technical analysis, architecture design, software development, QA, release to staging/production and maintenance
• Managing full stack development of Gulf Talent’s platform, based on Symfony 2, Angular JS, Bootstrap, Sass, MySQL, Sphinx, Gear man, LXC/OpenVZ containers and Ansible
• Providing organizational as well as technical leadership to the team including motivating and coaching the team, workflow management and monitoring, maintaining quality standards, and direct hands-on involvement in critical or challenging problems
• Architecture design and code reviews
• Interacting with various stakeholders as needed including senior managers, sales team, end users and technology partners
• Making recommendations on technology and infrastructure choices faced by the business, based on in-depth reviews and analysis of available options
• Involvement in selection and management of technology partners and service providers, including hosting/hardware provider, CDN provider, mobile apps developers, integration partners etc.
• Involvement in interviewing and selection of new technical hires, as well as performance reviews and appraisals of team members

We offer a very competitive tax-free compensation package, including company-provided health insurance. Also, access to Foosball and Table tennis during breaks for entertainment purpose.

Requirements

• Previous experience of managing front-to-back software development life cycles using Agile/Scrum
• Advanced knowledge of the technologies powering the GulfTalent’s platform
• 5+ years’ experience in programming
• Ability to provide the high-level technical vision that fulfills the needs of both business and engineering, and back it up by being able to resolve any low-level issues that may occur in the design/implementation
• Proven leadership experience and the ability to manage senior stakeholders across all areas of the business
• An ongoing commitment to providing a market leading service for internal stakeholders and for our international community
• Deep personal interest in following new trends in technology coupled with pragmatism regarding their use in production
• Degree from a leading university, ideally in Computer Science
• 3+ years’ experience in managing development
• Agile evangelist, certified Scrum Master
• Experience and preference for working in middle-size organizations
• Exposure to international/multicultural workplaces

KPIs
• Timely and predictable delivery
• Fulfilling the needs of the product owner
• Team’s morale and personal growth
• Site uptime
• Site performance

About the Company

GulfTalent is one of the largest online portals serving the Middle East region. Founded in 2005, it is now used by 10 million individuals and 9,000 companies.

GulfTalent is run by a seasoned team of young professionals with diverse backgrounds across different industries, including management consulting, private equity, finance, e-commerce, information technology, education and recruitment. The team also brings together a wealth of international experience across four continents.

This is your chance to join a growing company and a winning team, and to work with creative, hard-working individuals in a fast-paced, energizing environment. Team members benefit from extensive training, excellent learning opportunities, competitive compensation packages and rapid promotion.