DevOps Engineering Manager

Lean is expanding our footprint by opening an office in Egypt this summer, and the Engineering Manager, DevOps role is one of our first engineering leadership hires in market.

We're a Series B fintech (backed by General Catalyst and Sequoia), and over the last few years we've grown from a category-defining open banking company into a multi-rail financial infrastructure platform powering payments, data, and lending across MENA.

Cairo is a long-term investment in a market we deeply believe in, and the people who join now will shape what Lean looks like there for years to come. You'll work alongside a team representing 30+ nationalities, with experience from some of the world's leading fintechs and technology companies. The work is ambitious, the standards are high, and ownership is real.

If you're excited about building high-performing teams and world-class infrastructure from the ground up, this is the right moment to join.

About Lean

Lean is the leading financial infrastructure provider in the Middle East. We power some of the region's largest companies with APIs that enable payments, account verification, financial data access, and other critical financial infrastructure.

What started as the region's pioneering Open Banking platform quickly became the market leader in account aggregation and payment initiation. Today, Lean is evolving into a multi-product infrastructure company powering payments, data, and lending across MENA.

We've processed billions of dollars in transactions, serve more than 350 customers—including Binance, Careem, and e&—and are backed by General Catalyst, Sequoia, and Shorooq. Following our $67.5M Series B, we're expanding into new markets, opening new offices, acquiring businesses, and building financial infrastructure that has never existed in the region before.

About the Role

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our DevOps and Platform Engineering function You'll be responsible for building and growing a high-performing team that owns the infrastructure, developer platform, cloud architecture, and operational excellence behind Lean's products.

This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll combine technical depth with people leadership, partnering closely with Engineering, Security, Product, and Compliance teams to build a scalable, secure, and reliable platform capable of supporting the next stage of Lean's growth.

What You'll Do

• Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing DevOps and Platform Engineering team in Cairo.
• Define and execute the platform engineering roadmap, balancing developer productivity, reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Own Lean's cloud infrastructure across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and production operations.
• Drive reliability through SRE best practices, incident management, postmortems, and continuous improvement.
• Champion Infrastructure as Code, automation, and self-service developer tooling.
• Improve deployment velocity while maintaining security and operational excellence.
• Partner with Security and Compliance teams to meet regulatory and audit requirements across multiple markets.
• Collaborate with engineering leaders to improve software delivery, platform adoption, and engineering productivity.
• Establish operational metrics, SLOs, and KPIs that measure platform health and engineering effectiveness.
• Help shape Lean's engineering culture by hiring exceptional talent and raising the bar across the organization.

What You'll Bring

• 8+ years of experience in Infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering, with at least 3 years leading engineering teams.
• Strong technical expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, networking, and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience designing and operating highly available, distributed production systems at scale.
• Deep knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, and modern deployment strategies.
• Experience with observability platforms, monitoring, logging, and incident response.
• Strong understanding of security best practices and cloud infrastructure governance.
• Proven ability to hire, mentor, and grow high-performing engineering teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence technical strategy across multiple teams.
• Experience in fintech, payments, regulated environments, or high-growth startups is highly desirable.

NB. While we think the above experience could be important, we’re keen to hear from people that believe they have valuable experience to bring to the role. If you identify with the team and mission, but not all of our requirements, then please still apply!!

Why Join us?

We’re building the financial infrastructure for MENA. Not as a slogan, as a fact.

Since 2019, we’ve become the first regulated Open Banking and Open Finance company operating across the UAE and Saudi Arabia. We’ve processed billions of dollars. We connect millions of accounts. We enable companies like Binance, Careem, and Etisalat to build products that were previously impossible in this region.

Our recent $67.5M Series B from General Catalyst and Sequoia isn’t just validation: it’s fuel. We’re expanding into new markets, launching new products, and setting the pace for what financial innovation looks like in MENA.

We solve hard problems. We move fast. We hold ourselves to a high standard. And we’re looking for people who’ve done this before to help us do it right.

If you’re motivated by building something that lasts, not just something that scales, Lean is where you need to be.

Not only do we offer competitive salaries, private healthcare, and flexible office hours, but we also insist that every member of the team hold a meaningful equity stake in the business to ensure long-term alignment. We'd love you to join us for this journey!

Lean is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

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