[Hiring] Engineering Manager @Etera Technologies FZCO

Role Description

We're hiring an Engineering Manager who owns all of Etera's engineering, across all four verticals (Hotels, Flights, Restaurants, Experiences) and the platform layer beneath them. This is not a meeting-heavy management role. You spend at least 50% of your time hands-on: writing code, reviewing architecture, debugging production issues, and shipping features alongside your team. The other 50% you spend making everyone around you dramatically more productive — through hiring, technical direction, and building the agentic coding infrastructure that turns a small team into a force multiplier.

What You'll Own

• All of engineering: Every vertical, every platform service, every microservice. You set the technical direction, own the architecture decisions, and are accountable for the quality and velocity of everything that goes to production.
• The agent infrastructure: Own the multi-team Claude Code agent architecture (OPUS Prime) — maintain agent configurations, manage prompt drift, handle tool failures, design validation gates, and ensure agent output meets quality standards.
• The 10x engineering culture: Ensure every engineer operates at maximum leverage, build playbooks, set standards, and coach engineers to think in agent-augmented systems.
• Hands-on engineering: Spend at least 50% of your time writing code, reviewing PRs, designing systems, and solving hard technical problems directly.
• Delivery: Break work into lean epics, route tasks based on complexity, and hold people to outcomes, not activity.
• Hiring: Build the team by sourcing, interviewing, evaluating, and making hiring decisions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• At least 2 years managing a team and owning delivery.
• Strong written English; ability to write specs, design docs, and architectural decisions.
• Experience managing remote or distributed engineering teams.

Requirements

• TypeScript across the full stack — you read, write, review, and architect in TypeScript.
• Production experience with LLM APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI, or equivalent).
• Hands-on daily use of agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or equivalent).
• Experience with travel supplier APIs or GDS/NDC systems (Amadeus, Sabre, PKfare, RateHawk) is a bonus.
• Experience with Voice AI systems (Ultravox, Vapi, ElevenLabs) is a bonus.
• Familiarity with OpenSearch, vector search, or hybrid search systems is a bonus.
• Background in security auditing, compliance, or data residency requirements (UAE PDPL context) is a bonus.

Benefits

• Greenfield Ownership — You own all of engineering.
• Human + AI Engineering — Run a hybrid engineering organization where autonomous agents are first-class members of the team.
• Remote-First — Work from anywhere with an async-friendly, written-first culture.
• Equity + Competitive Package — Meaningful equity stake and competitive cash.
• High-Impact Market — Building the replacement for a $20B+ market running on legacy infrastructure.
• 50% Hands-On — Expectation to write, review, and ship code regularly.