Head of Engineering

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🇪🇬 Egypt – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Emergence

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11 - 50 employees

💸 Finance

🤝 B2B

☁️ SaaS

Finance • B2B • SaaS

Emergence is a venture capital firm that focuses on investing in early- and growth-stage enterprise software and cloud/SaaS companies. It partners with founders building B2B platforms and services, providing capital and operational support to help scale businesses in the enterprise software space.

📋 Description

• Build the R&D Center of Excellence from its first hires into a multi-vertical engineering organization • Lead engineers based in Egypt who are deployed into portfolio companies • Define and enforce the quality bar for engineering talent and deployed engineers • Own hiring judgment and scale an organization of versatile engineers • Lead the forward-deployment model, including staffing, duration, and accountability • Chair biweekly vertical forums with portfolio technical leaders, pod leads, and operating partners • Set portfolio-wide standards for software development, testing, shipping, and observability • Coach deployed engineers and improve the engineering practices of host teams • Own and improve the path from ideation to production, including processes and infrastructure • Build portfolio-wide capabilities in agent building, data and analytics, and automation • Lead Emergence’s central engineering team, including architecture direction, technical review, and internal AI-driven tooling • Serve as Emergence’s leading voice on AI and establish effective AI engineering guardrails • Work with CEOs, CTOs, and operating partners to translate engineering needs into staffing, capabilities, and standards • Own the economics of the deployment model with the managing partner • Meet regularly with portfolio technical leaders to review engineer performance and required changes

🎯 Requirements

• Deep technical background as a hands-on builder who has designed, built, and operated production systems • Many years of experience designing, building, and operating production systems • Track record of scaling teams, systems, and architecture • Experience growing an engineering organization from a small team to dozens of engineers • Experience leading multiple engineering teams simultaneously across more than one product, codebase, or company • Experience influencing teams without direct control • Demonstrated high bar for engineering talent, including hiring and making difficult performance decisions • Experience building delivery processes and infrastructure to improve speed and safety • Fluency in modern engineering practices and frequent, safe software delivery • Current hands-on use of AI in engineering and a clear perspective on its future impact • Experience across multiple programming languages, technology stacks, cloud environments, and domains such as data, automation, or agentic systems • Clear, confident English • Based in Egypt • Ability to work an afternoon-to-evening Cairo schedule with heavy overlap into the US workday • Ability to assess engineering quality across the listed languages, frameworks, data/AI technologies, cloud/infrastructure technologies, and domains

🏖️ Benefits

• Very competitive compensation, paid in USD • Founding leadership seat with direct reporting to the firm’s co-founder and managing partner • Direct working relationships with CEOs, CTOs, and operating partners of over 10 software companies • Mandate designed to scale into dozens of teams • Remote within Egypt, with the core team in Cairo • Dedicated recruiting resources handling sourcing, screening, and filtering • Real ownership of standards, structure, and team