Company Description
SAC is the number one in its field, it's an innovative and technology-driven business which values its employees. SAC is on a journey and we are looking for the best talent to join us to contribute to our success as a business and in doing so provide you with some amazing challenges and career development opportunities.
Job Description
About the Role
We are looking for a Engineering
Manager who leads through action, someone who codes daily, architects scalable systems, mentors developers, and ensures engineering best practices. In this hands-on leadership role, you'll manage a high-performing team while staying deep in the codebase, guiding both day-to-day technical execution and long-term architecture.
Key Responsibilities
- Write clean, maintainable, scalable code in a modern object-oriented language (PHP preferred).
- Lead system and component design for high-volume, distributed applications.
- Mentor and up-skill engineers, instilling engineering discipline, quality standards, and technical growth.
- Coordinate deployments, debug complex issues, and continuously improve platform reliability and performance.
- Collaborate with Product and other departments to translate business needs into technical solutions.
- Drive Agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban), manage sprints using tools like JIRA.
- Own observability, logging, and alerting using tools such as Datadog or NewRelic.
- Ensure proper documentation, secure coding, and compliance with standards like GDPR/PCI.
Qualifications
Must-Have Skills / Qualifications
- BSc in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of 8 years experience in software engineering, including technical leadership.
- Passion, energy, and hands-on technical excellence.
- Expert in PHP for large-scale applications.
- Strong experience with MVC frameworks (Laravel, Symfony).
- Deep knowledge of Yii framework.
- Solid skills in CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX.
- Experience with Git, Agile development, and JIRA.
- Basic understanding of Unix/Linux environments.
- Excellent written and verbal communication in English.
- Strong attention to detail and quality.
- Familiarity with AngularJS.
- Experience with CRM/ERP software development.
- Proven work on SaaS platforms.
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP).
- Experience working in the UAE/KSA tech ecosystem.
- Exposure to DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
Why Join Us
- Code, teach, and leadthis is a real hands-on technical leadership role.
- Shape architecture and engineering standards from the ground up.
- Work on meaningful systems in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
