Technical Lead

Job description

Do you want to love what you do at work? Do you want to make a difference, an impact, transform peoples lives? Do you want to work with a team that believes in disrupting the normal, boring, and average? If yes, then this is the job you're looking for, the employer is Saudi's 1 event ticketing and experience booking platforms in terms of technology, features, agility, revenue serving some of the largest mega events in the Kingdom surpassing over 2 billion sales. Technical Leadership & Delivery • Act as the technical leader for your squad, owning system design, code quality, and engineering standards. • Lead the design and implementation of scalable, reliable, and maintainable software solutions. • Contribute hands-on to the codebase when needed, especially for complex or high-impact areas. • Review code, guide architectural decisions, and ensure best practices in testing, documentation, and observability. • Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term system health and sustainability. Team Enablement • Lead, mentor, and support software engineers, helping them grow technically and professionally. • Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement. • Support onboarding and knowledge sharing within the team. • Provide clear technical direction while empowering engineers to make strong decisions. Execution & Collaboration • Own end-to-end execution for your team’s deliverables, from planning to production. • Work closely with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions. • Ensure alignment between product priorities, technical execution, and platform standards. • Act as the first point of escalation for technical or delivery challenges within your team. Operational Excellence • Ensure production readiness, performance, and reliability of owned services. • Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-mortems. • Continuously improve development workflows, tooling, and team productivity. • Leverage AI and automation where possible to improve engineering efficiency and product quality. Key Skills • Deep expertise in Laravel/PHP backend systems, with experience designing scalable, maintainable, and high-performance platforms. • Solid knowledge of software development best practices, including code quality, testing, documentation, and observability. • Deep understanding of large-scale, high-performance platforms, including SQL/NoSQL, caching, and concurrency. • Strong strategic and operational planning skills, balancing short-term delivery with long-term system sustainability. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills (fluent English speaking and writing). • Experience in Scrum and Agile methodology • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), CI/CD pipelines, and containerized deployments is a plus

Requirements

• 3–5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proven experience delivering high-traffic, mission-critical platforms.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience contributing to open-source projects or technical thought leadership is a plus.

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