Engineering Manager Smart Signals

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Engineering Manager, Smart Signals in United Arab Emirates.

This role sits at the core of a fraud detection and device intelligence platform, leading the engineering efforts behind critical “Smart Signals” that help detect bots, tampering, and fraudulent behavior in real time. You will manage a high-impact backend engineering team responsible for building and evolving signals that directly influence product trust, security, and revenue outcomes. The environment is fast-paced, highly technical, and deeply collaborative, requiring strong alignment with ML, product, and research functions. You will balance hands-on technical credibility with people leadership, ensuring the team delivers reliable, scalable, and high-quality detection systems. This position plays a strategic role in shaping how fraud signals evolve in response to emerging AI-driven threats. Your work will directly contribute to the company’s core differentiation in the market.

Accountabilities

• Lead and grow a backend engineering team, managing hiring, performance reviews, career development, and technical mentorship with a strong focus on engineering excellence.
• Own sprint planning, roadmap execution, and delivery outcomes, ensuring the team consistently ships high-quality fraud detection signals on time.
• Oversee the development of scalable backend systems powering bot detection, fraud scoring, and device intelligence signals.
• Maintain technical depth to review architecture decisions, evaluate design proposals, and proactively identify system risks before production incidents occur.
• Collaborate closely with ML engineers and data teams to support signal pipelines, model deployment, and production integration.
• Drive cross-functional alignment with product managers and engineering leadership to prioritize roadmap initiatives and manage dependencies.
• Lead incident response processes, retrospectives, and operational discipline, ensuring reliability and continuous improvement.
  
  

Requirements

• 4+ years of engineering management experience leading teams of approximately 8-10 engineers, including hiring, performance management, and career development.
• Strong technical background in backend or distributed systems at scale, with the ability to review code and evaluate architectural decisions.
• Proven track record of delivering complex engineering projects with measurable outcomes, including reliability, performance, or delivery improvements.
• Experience working cross-functionally with product managers, data teams, or research/ML partners to translate requirements into technical execution plans.
• Strong understanding of production system delivery, including sprint planning, incident management, and operational excellence.
• Ability to balance technical depth with leadership responsibilities in a fast-moving environment.
• Nice to have: exposure to fraud detection, security signals, or device intelligence systems.
• Nice to have: experience working with ML systems in production or real-time/latency-sensitive backend systems.
  
  

Benefits

• Competitive compensation aligned with senior engineering leadership roles.
• Fully remote, globally distributed work environment.
• Opportunity to lead high-impact systems directly tied to product differentiation and revenue.
• Strong technical ownership and influence over architecture and engineering direction.
• Work on cutting-edge fraud detection and AI-driven security challenges.
• Collaborative engineering culture with high autonomy and responsibility.
• Exposure to advanced ML, security, and real-time data systems.
  
  

How Jobgether Works

We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the roles core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.

We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!

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