Development Assistant Manager

Job Role: Team Leader – Full-Stack

We are seeking an experienced Team Leader to guide a cross-functional engineering team working across Software development, DevOps, Monitoring, and Security. The ideal candidate has strong technical depth, leadership skills, and experience ensuring both high-quality software delivery and secure, scalable systems.

Key Responsibilities:

Team Leadership & Project Management

• Lead, mentor, and support backend, frontend, DevOps, and security-focused engineers.
• Plan sprints, assign tasks, and ensure timely delivery of features and infrastructure improvements.
• Facilitate code reviews, architecture discussions, and technical decision-making.
• Collaborate with product and business teams to translate requirements into secure, maintainable technical solutions.

Technical Ownership

• Provide hands-on guidance in software development.
• Architect scalable, maintainable applications with a focus on performance and security.
• Ensure engineering best practices are followed, including coding standards, documentation, and testing.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across the full stack.

DevOps, Operations & Monitoring

• Work on CI/CD automation, infrastructure-as-code, containerization, and cloud operations.
• Work on deployments, cloud configuration, and environment stability.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and logging.
• Collaborate with teams to maintain reliable, high-availability production systems.

Security – Application, Infrastructure & Compliance

• Ensure secure coding practices across codebases.
• Conduct security reviews, threat modeling, and vulnerability assessments.
• Implement OWASP best practices and enforce secure authentication/authorization patterns.
• Oversee infrastructure security including - IAM roles and permission management, Network security groups, firewalls, and VPNs, etc
• Manage security tools and processes such as SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, logging, and audit trails.
• Coordinate penetration testing and security incident response.
• Ensure compliance with relevant data protection standards.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Proven experience leading engineering or DevOps teams.
• 5+ years hands-on experience with: Node.js, Laravel/PHP, Angular
• Strong DevOps knowledge (Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform or similar IaC).
• Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure security.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and incident response.
• Strong foundation in application security and secure coding practices.

Experience with microservices architecture or migration.

Understanding of API security (JWT, OAuth2, rate-limiting, WAF).

Excellent communication and leadership skills.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: AED12,000.00 - AED15,000.00 per month

Experience:

• Node.js, Laravel/PHP, Angular: 5 years (Required)

Location:

• Dubai (Required)