Head of Engineering

Head of Engineering, Emergence (Egypt)

Cairo, Egypt | Remote within Egypt | Full-time, paid in USD | Reports to the co-founder and managing partner of Emergence

Who We Are

Emergence is a private equity firm backed by the Pritzker Organisation that acquires and scales category-defining B2B software companies. We own over 10 software businesses across three verticals today, healthcare, automotive, and infrastructure software, and we are actively adding to the portfolio. We combine operational rigor with patient capital: we buy good companies, then build the shared capabilities that make every company in the portfolio faster, healthier, and more valuable than it could be alone.

Engineering is the next of those shared capabilities. We are building an R&D Center of Excellence, headquartered in Cairo, that will set the engineering bar for the entire portfolio. This role leads it.

The Mission

You are the founding leader of Emergence’s R&D Center of Excellence. You will build and lead a team of top-tier engineers, based in Egypt, who are deployed into our portfolio companies to raise the level of engineering wherever they land. They are not an outsourced resource. They are Emergence engineers, part of the team at every company they serve, and you are the person who makes sure that is true.

The mandate is two-sided. You build the organization, and you build the engineering system behind it: the processes, infrastructure, and cross-cutting capabilities that let a lean team take an idea to production fast, at a quality level that holds, and then carry that same system into every company we own.

This is not a request to manage a team. It is a mandate to build an engineering organization across a portfolio of companies, with direct exposure to the CEOs, CTOs, and operating partners who run them. Very few engineering leaders get to say they have done that.

How It Works

• We want you to see the whole picture before you apply, so here is the structure you will be stepping into.

• The Center of Excellence sits at the center. It sources, vets, and sets a single quality bar for engineering talent across the portfolio, and it owns the deployment model: which engineers go where, for how long, and to what standard. You lead it.

• Engineers are organized by vertical. Each vertical (healthcare, automotive, infrastructure) has its own pod of engineers who build domain fluency together and can move between the companies in that vertical as needs change. Pods are led by you and your leads, staffed from Cairo, and integrated day to day into the squads at the companies they serve.