Senior Engineering Manager
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Role Overview
FAR Labs is building an AI-native engineering organisation where AI is embedded in how products are designed, built, tested, and operated.
The Senior Engineering Manager will strengthen the engineering organisation and work directly with the CTO and Co-Founder.
The role owns day-to-day engineering effectiveness across team structure, delivery, processes, performance management, hiring, and team development.
This is a hands-on leadership role requiring deep technical understanding and the ability to build a high-performing engineering environment.
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About Dizzaract
Dizzaract is a product-driven company operating across gaming, digital platforms, and AI.
The company builds products including FAR Labs and Gamed, using a collaborative, non-hierarchical approach with AI embedded across infrastructure and product decisions.
About the Role
FAR Labs is building an AI-native engineering organisation where AI is embedded in how products are designed, built, tested, and operated.
The Senior Engineering Manager will strengthen the engineering organisation and work directly with the CTO and Co-Founder.
The role owns day-to-day engineering effectiveness across team structure, delivery, processes, performance management, hiring, and team development.
This is a hands-on leadership role requiring deep technical understanding and the ability to build a high-performing engineering environment.
Candidate Profile
- Strong software engineering background with several years leading engineering teams, senior engineers, and technical leads.
- Technical understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, reliability, and software development practices.
- Ability to convert business and product priorities into engineering plans, remove blockers, manage dependencies, and support predictable releases.
- Experience with hiring, performance management, development conversations, feedback, team changes, and clear expectations.
- Ability to create processes and structures from scratch in a fast-moving environment.
- Ability to communicate technical trade-offs clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop engineers and engineering leads while creating a culture of ownership, accountability, transparency, and high performance.
- Structure teams around products, technical domains, priorities, and capacity, and define clear ownership.
- Own execution across projects and releases, including progress, blockers, dependencies, risks, and timelines.
- Improve planning, estimation, development, code review, testing, release, retrospective, and incident-management processes.
- Remove bottlenecks affecting velocity while maintaining quality and reliability.
- Own one-to-ones, reviews, development plans, feedback cycles, performance improvement, and career development.
- Partner on workforce planning, hiring, interviewing, onboarding, performance management, and offboarding.
- Align Product and Business priorities with engineering plans.
- Maintain standards for architecture, code quality, scalability, security, reliability, technical debt, and maintainability.
- Ensure effective CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, observability, incident response, and production reliability.
- Introduce and track metrics for delivery, quality, reliability, capacity, and engineering performance.
Required Experience
- At least 7 years of software engineering experience.
- At least 3 years of experience managing engineering teams in a technology company.
- Previous experience managing Senior Engineers, Tech Leads, or multiple engineering teams.
- Experience building or improving engineering processes and team structures.
- Experience managing software delivery from planning through production.
- Experience with hiring, onboarding, performance management, employee development, and difficult performance decisions.
- Strong understanding of Agile principles and modern engineering practices.
- Experience working with Product, Business, and other cross-functional stakeholders.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills in fast-moving environments.
- Advanced English proficiency at C1 level.
Preferred Experience
- Experience scaling an engineering organisation or building engineering processes in a startup or scale-up environment is a strong plus.
- Experience in AI, ML infrastructure, distributed systems, developer infrastructure, or technically complex products is a plus.
What the Role Offers
- Real ownership and direct impact on the engineering organisation's structure and performance.
- Direct collaboration with the CTO, Co-Founder, and senior leadership team.
- Opportunity to shape engineering processes, team structure, hiring, and ways of working.
- Hands-on exposure to AI, infrastructure, and distributed systems problems.
- Fast execution, low bureaucracy, and a collaborative, idea-driven team.
- Competitive salary with performance-based incentives, 24 days of annual leave plus public holidays, and health insurance.
- Modern office in Yas Creative Hub and continuous learning through real-world problem solving.
Pay
- Pay is AED 25,000 to AED 30,000 per month.
Work Location
- The work location is in person in Abu Dhabi.
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