Senior Engineering Manager

September 15, 2026

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Abu Dhabi

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Office-only workEnglish is required · C1 level

Description

Dizzaract is a product-driven company operating at the intersection of gaming, digital platforms, and AI, building products including FAR Labs and Gamed. FAR Labs is building an AI-native engineering organisation where AI is embedded into how products are designed, built, tested, and operated. The Senior Engineering Manager will work directly with the CTO & Co-Founder, owning the day-to-day effectiveness of the engineering organisation: team structure, delivery, processes, performance management, hiring, and team development.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and develop engineers and engineering leads across FAR Labs, creating a culture of ownership, accountability, transparency, and high performance
Structure engineering into effective teams based on products, technical domains, priorities, and available capacity with clear ownership and responsibilities
Own engineering execution across projects and releases — track progress, blockers, dependencies, risks, and timelines with clear visibility to leadership
Build and continuously improve planning, estimation, development, code review, testing, release, retrospective, and incident-management processes
Identify bottlenecks affecting engineering velocity and systematically remove them while maintaining quality and reliability standards
Own regular 1:1s, performance reviews, development plans, feedback cycles, and career development across the engineering organisation
Partner with the CTO and People team on workforce planning, hiring, interviewing, onboarding, performance management, and offboarding
Work closely with Product and Business teams to translate priorities into engineering plans and ensure engineers understand what they are building and why
Partner with the CTO and technical leads to maintain strong standards around architecture, code quality, scalability, security, reliability, and technical debt
Ensure strong engineering practices around CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, observability, incident response, and production reliability
Introduce and track meaningful metrics around delivery, quality, reliability, capacity, and engineering performance

Requirements

7+ years of software engineering experience
3+ years of experience managing engineering teams in a technology company
Previous experience managing Senior Engineers, Tech Leads, or multiple engineering teams
Strong technical background with solid understanding of modern software architecture, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and system reliability
Proven experience building or improving engineering processes and team structures
Strong experience managing software delivery from planning through production
Experience with hiring, onboarding, performance management, employee development, and difficult performance decisions
Ability to manage technical debt while balancing short-term product priorities with long-term engineering quality
Strong understanding of Agile software development principles and modern engineering practices
Experience working closely with Product, Business, and other cross-functional stakeholders
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to make decisions in fast-moving environments
English level: Advanced (C1)

Conditions

Competitive salary with performance-based incentives
24 days annual leave, plus public holidays
Health insurance
Modern office in Yas Creative Hub, Abu Dhabi
Fast execution, low bureaucracy, and a highly collaborative idea-driven team
Continuous learning through real-world problem solving
Real ownership and direct impact on the structure and performance of the engineering organisation
Direct collaboration with the CTO & Co-Founder and senior leadership team

CI/CDDistributed SystemsCloud Infrastructuregaming, ai, digital platforms

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