About The Role 

As a Senior Engineering Manager at Thndr, you will play a crucial leadership role in our mission to build upon our strong foundations. You'll be responsible for managing multiple key product and business domains from an engineering perspective, which may involve leading teams of high-performing individual contributors or managing a group of hands-on engineering managers.

Your impact will be felt across our organization as you help us grow a team with exceptional talent density while building multi-region, multi-market systems that are sustainable, reliable, scalable, and performant. You'll balance our present needs with future growth, ensuring that your team's pace is predictable, progress is measurable, and delivery is consistent.

This role requires excellence in leadership, mentoring, coaching, and guiding both managers and individual contributors. You'll set strategic direction for your tribe, hire exceptional talent, enhance processes, manage delivery, measure what truly matters, and maintain strong stakeholder relationships. Your focus will be on building the right things right — whether it's product-led projects and features or technical investments.

What You'll Do

Product & Business Focus

• Forge strong collaborative relationships with product, design, and business counterparts

• [Key] Define and track engineering metrics that align with business outcomes and customer value

• [Key] Actively participate in cross-functional planning to align technical direction with product roadmaps

• [Key] Champion initiatives that enhance the quality, security, and performance of our products

• Translate complex technical concepts and constraints into business language for stakeholders

Project & Delivery Management

• [Key] Oversee successful delivery across multiple product domains while maintaining quality standards

• Establish measurable objectives and key results that provide clarity and focus for your teams

• Anticipate potential roadblocks and develop mitigation strategies before they impact delivery

Team Leadership & People Management

• [Key] Cultivate a diverse, high-performing engineering organization through thoughtful hiring, development, and organizational design

• Establish meaningful connections with your teams through regular 1:1s and periodic skip-level meetings

• [Key] Accelerate the growth of engineering talent at all levels by creating personalized development paths

• Deliver constructive feedback that balances appreciation with opportunities for growth.

• [Key] Show ability in taking tough decisions when corrective actions are required.

Strategic Planning, Vision & Team Scaling

• Build thoughtful hiring plans that address both current needs and future capabilities

• Navigate complex, ambiguous challenges by providing clear direction and decision frameworks

• [Key] Spearhead strategic initiatives that span multiple teams and organizational boundaries

• Adapt team structures and focus areas as business priorities evolve

• Build relationships with leadership across the organization to ensure strategic alignment

Process Excellence

• Continuously evolve development practices based on team feedback and performance data

• Create frameworks for decision-making that promote autonomy and alignment

• Facilitate productive team ceremonies that focus on learning and improvement

• Establish documentation standards that support knowledge sharing and team resilience

• [Key] Ensure robust incident response and management protocols that maintain service reliability

Technical Leadership & Direction

• [Key] Take full ownership of your domain's services, establishing and maintaining excellence in system quality, reliability, and performance while continuously raising standards as the organization grows.

• [Key] Strike the optimal balance between delivering customer-facing features, investing in critical technical infrastructure, and nurturing team health and professional growth to ensure sustainable long-term success.

• Promote engineering best practices that balance innovation with operational excellence

• Encourage automation and tooling improvements that enhance developer productivity

What You'll Need 

• Substantial experience in software engineering, with a proven track record in engineering leadership roles

• Experience managing teams of 10+ engineers, including other engineering managers

• Track record of successfully delivering complex, multi-region software systems at scale

• Demonstrated success in building and scaling engineering teams during periods of high growth

• Strong technical background with recent hands-on experience in modern software development practices

• Understanding of distributed systems architecture, microservices, and cloud infrastructure

• Familiarity with DevOps practices, continuous integration, and deployment automation

• Experience with agile methodologies and software development lifecycle management

• Data-driven approach to measuring engineering performance and quality

• Exceptional problem-solving abilities and a bias toward action

• Adaptability and resilience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment

• Experience working with financial technology products is beneficial but not required

• Alignment with Thndr's mission of democratizing investing in MENA

Who Are We? 

Thndr was founded with a powerful vision: to democratize investing in the Middle East and North Africa by putting financial power in the pockets of everyday people. Through smart technology and human-centered design, we're giving anyone with a smartphone easy access to preserve and grow their wealth while promoting local investment opportunities that propel our regional economies.

Before Thndr, only a very small percentage of people had access to investing due to

• High barriers to entry - minimum account balances, brick-and-mortar onboarding, and low financial literacy

• Irrelevant experiences - platforms designed for traders and financial experts, alienating the majority

• Fragmented offerings - investment products scattered across multiple platforms

• Limited information accessibility - lack of organized, accessible information for retail investors

Our impact has been swift and significant:

• 3 million app downloads

• $8.8 billion in annualized traded value

• #1 platform in terms of traded value (30% of market orders & 11% of retail traded value)

• 84% of our users are investing for the first time

• 65% of our users come from outside capital cities, previously underserved by financial institutions

We're building the connectivity and information gateway that links investors with a wide range of investments, focusing on self-directed investing and local products that empower individuals to build wealth confidently and intelligently.

While we're proud of our achievements, we're just getting started. Over the coming years, we're transitioning Thndr from an exciting startup to a consistently growing business that will remain strong, competitive, and expanding.

Joining Thndr means becoming part of a mission that requires passion, bold risks, and hard work—all focused on giving everyone an equal opportunity to generate and grow their wealth.