Engineering Lead, Lending

About the role

MNT-Halan is one of Egypt’s largest fintech unicorns, providing payments, lending, BNPL, and digital banking services to merchants and consumers. The Engineering Lead, Lending owns the platform powering MNT-Halan’s lending products, leading a team of 8 to 12 engineers. Application deadline 31 August 2026.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 8 to 12 engineers covering hiring, performance, growth, and execution.
• Own technical direction for the lending platform: origination, decisioning, servicing, and collections.
• Partner with product, risk, and operations teams to ship lending features.
• Operate services in production through on-call rotations and incident response.
• Influence Halan’s broader engineering practices (architecture, observability, security).

Requirements

• Eight or more years of professional software engineering experience and three or more years managing engineers.
• Hands-on technical depth in backend systems (Java, Kotlin, Go, or Python).
• Track record of shipping high-volume transactional systems.
• Deep understanding of lending platforms (credit decisioning, loan management systems).
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English; Arabic an asset.
• Authorisation to work in Egypt.

Nice to have

• Prior experience at a digital lender, fintech, or bank technology team.
• Familiarity with Central Bank of Egypt lending regulations.
• Open source contributions or technical writing.

How to apply

Open the MNT-Halan careers page at the apply link, search for “Engineering Lead Lending”, and submit through MNT-Halan’s portal. CV review, technical interview, system design interview, leadership interview, and final executive interview follow. Closing date 31 August 2026.