Director of Software Engineering

Foreground is partnering with a venture-backed AI software company serving enterprise clients across MENA to appoint a product-driven and deeply technical Director of Software Engineering based in Dubai.

Role Purpose

To lead the engineering team responsible for designing building and deploying AI-powered software products that meet enterprise-grade performance reliability and security standards while maintaining speed of innovation and delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Set the technical vision and software architecture for core product platforms ensuring modularity scalability and continuous improvement across releases.
• Oversee backend frontend and infrastructure teams ensuring effective coordination with product managers data scientists and QA leads.
• Implement engineering best practices including DevOps pipelines CI/CD automation version control and secure code development.
• Define and enforce coding sta...