Property Finder is the leading property portal in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, dedicated to shaping an inclusive future for real estate while spearheading the region’s growing tech ecosystem. At its core is a clear and powerful purpose:
To change living for good in the region.
Founded on the value of great ambitions, Property Finder connects millions of property seekers with thousands of real estate professionals every day. The platform offers a seamless and enriching experience, empowering both buyers and renters to make informed decisions. Since its inception in 2007, Property Finder has evolved into a trusted partner for developers, brokers, and home seekers. As a lighthouse tech company, it continues to create an environment where people can thrive and contribute meaningfully to the transformation of real estate in MENA.
Position SummaryAs the Engineering Manager of the Fin Tech Team
, you will lead the engineering efforts for Property Finder’s growing suite of fintech products. You will steward a high-performing cross-functional team focused on enabling seamless digital transactions, improving user financial journeys, and integrating modernized financial services into our property ecosystem.
Strategic Leadership:
- Define and drive the technology vision and roadmaps for fintech products across Property Finder.
- Architect scalable, secure, and compliant fintech platforms that support rapid product innovation and integration with third‑party providers.
Operational Excellence:
- Ensure platform stability, security, and regulatory compliance across all fintech products.
- Monitor key operational KPIs such as transaction success rates, latency, fraud detection, and uptime.
- Lead incident management and continuous improvement programs focused on resilience and reliability.
- Partner closely with Product, Design, Security, and Legal teams to iterate and launch new financial features and improve user conversions.
- Build infrastructure that supports experimentation and safe feature rollouts, including A/B testing and rollout flags.
Stakeholder Management & Communication:
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders and external financial partners to align technical delivery with business goals and regulatory requirements.
- Effectively communicate progress, risks, and strategic updates to senior leadership.
- Recruit, coach, and mentor a diverse team of fintech engineers and engineers‑in‑test.
- Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, continuous learning, and cross‑discipline collaboration.
- Champion continuous learning and the adoption of industry best practices in fintech development.
Platform Enablement:
- Champion API‑first design enabling seamless fintech service integrations.
- Drive adoption of modern fintech standards (PII, PCI‑DSS, KYC/AML compliance tools, Open Banking APIs).
- Lead the modernization or migration of legacy services towards cloud‑native, microservices architectures.
Proven expertise in building fintech or payment solutions, preferably in mortgage, lending, or digital payments domains.
Strong understanding of financial transaction flows, settlement systems, banking APIs, and regulatory compliance (KYC, AML, PCI‑DSS).
Experience with integration of third‑party financial data providers, payment gateways, and fintech platforms.
Skilled in backend technologies (Java, Kotlin, Node.js, Python, Go, or similar) and API development (REST/Graph
QL).
Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), microservices, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
Familiarity with security best practices in fintech applications, including encryption, tokenization, and secure key management.
Knowledge of event‑driven architectures and stream processing (Kafka, Rabbit
MQ) is beneficial.
Comfortable with Agile methodologies and continuous integration/delivery pipelines.
Your Profile- 8+ years in software engineering with significant fintech product experience.
- 3+ years of people management leading cross‑functional fintech engineering teams.
- Demonstrated success delivering regulated, mission‑critical financial products.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with ability to work…
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