Senior Engineering Manager - Alexandria

Lead engineering for Sana Commerce's new AI-native product for agentic B2B commerce and serve as the first leader of the company's engineering community in Egypt. The role combines product engineering leadership across the UAE, Ukraine and Egypt with local site leadership in Egypt. It is primarily a people and delivery leadership role rather than a hands-on coding role, and works closely with Product Management and Architecture.

Responsibilities

Keeping a fast-moving product on track, turning the roadmap into reliable delivery across Buyer Channels, Seller Studio and Platform; Shaping small, autonomous teams with clear ownership and ways of working that suit a distributed organization; Helping teams get real value from AI coding agents, with clear quality standards and metrics that show measurable impact; Building in reliability with the Platform team: observability, SLOs and incident management; Coaching team leads and senior engineers, and hiring and developing engineers across all locations; Being the local face of Sana and first point of contact for every engineer in Egypt, whatever their team; Holding regular 1:1s to support engineers' growth and careers; Building a connected Sana community in Egypt and growing the team

Requirements

5+ years in engineering management, including 2+ years leading multiple teams or team leads; A background as a senior engineer or tech lead, with a strong understanding of cloud-native, API-first systems (Azure is a plus); A track record of delivering a new product to production and running it, with measurable outcomes; Hands-on experience with AI coding tools, yourself or through teams you've led, and a clear view of where they help and where they fail; Track record of developing engineers; Excellent written and spoken English

Nice to have

Experience setting up or leading an engineering site; Experience with LLM or agent-based products, or with B2B commerce; Experience leading distributed teams across cultures, including through influence; Experience with Microsoft Azure cloud platform

Benefits

The chance to shape a new AI-native product and build a new engineering site; Hybrid working, 3 days a week in the Alexandria office; A global and customized onboarding program; Working closely with global leaders on strategic initiatives