Engineering Manager — Remote

Type: Full-time, remote, part hands-on

Awafi Clinic is looking for an Engineering Manager to own the team, how work ships, and whether the product stays up. This is a player-coach role: part people leadership, part delivery ownership, and part hands-on engineering. The candidate should know the clinic's stack well enough to read the code, review it, and judge technical trade-offs: PHP/Laravel, React/Next.js, Flutter, and cloud infrastructure on GCP with Terraform. The Engineering Manager sets the standards the team works to and is accountable for what reaches production.

Responsibilities

• People. Manages the engineering team: one-to-ones, growth plans, performance, hiring and onboarding. Distributes work to match capability and develops it.
• Delivery. Owns what the team commits to each cycle and whether it lands. The Product Manager sets priority; the Engineering Manager decides what fits and holds the line on scope.
• Engineering standards. Enforces code review, automated testing and a working definition of done. Sets the bar and keeps it.
• Release control. Owns the path to production: branch protection, a passing test gate, environment parity, a documented rollback, and a quality sign-off that can stop a release.
• Reliability. Monitoring, alerting, on-call, incident response and blameless postmortems. Accountable for uptime, not just for features.
• Technical direction. Partners with senior engineers on architecture and technical debt. Stays hands-on enough to review code and judge trade-offs.
• Documentation and knowledge. Keeps documentation living and owned, with structured onboarding so knowledge does not sit in one person's head.
• Reporting. Gives leadership a clear read on delivery health, risk and capacity.

Requirements

• 5+ years engineering experience, with 2+ managing engineers directly
• Accountability for production reliability in a previous role: on-call, incident command, postmortems
• Track record of introducing engineering discipline: code review, CI/CD, test gates, environments
• Working knowledge of the clinic's stack, PHP/Laravel and React/Next.js in particular, with enough depth to review code and hold a peer conversation with the most senior engineer on the team
• Comfortable being hands-on across several codebases while still managing the team
• Clear communicator with non-technical stakeholders
• Fluent English; Arabic an advantage

Nice to have

• Flutter or other cross-platform mobile, and app release management
• GCP, Terraform and containerised deployment
• Multi-codebase or multi-product estates
• Test automation strategy and QA practice
• Environments handling sensitive personal data

This role is not

• A process-only delivery manager. Without technical standing and reliability accountability, it does not work.

How we work

Small team, short decision paths, and real ownership. The Engineering Manager is expected to set standards rather than inherit them, and to be in the code often enough to know they are holding. Full-time remote, with daily overlap with Riyadh working hours and readiness to respond to incidents outside them. The role handles patient data, and its confidentiality is part of the contract.