Head of Engineering

Location: Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia

Department: Technology

Workplace: on_site

Employment Type: full

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 ,webook.com 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. 

Key Responsibilities & Technical Focus Areas

Leadership & Team Enablement

• Lead and enable engineering teams, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence.
• Define and communicate the technical vision, priorities, and roadmap, aligning engineering efforts with business goals.
• Provide guidance and mentorship on architecture, system design, and technical decision-making.
• Drive team performance and operational efficiency, ensuring smooth day-to-day execution.
• Support hiring, onboarding, and career development within the engineering function.

Technical Oversight & Strategy

• Oversee system architecture and technical standards, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Review and approve major technical initiatives, balancing innovation with operational stability.
• Promote engineering best practices in coding, documentation, testing, and observability.
• Contribute to high-impact technical decisions when required, providing hands-on guidance for complex problems.

Operational Excellence

• Monitor engineering processes, workflows, and delivery metrics to ensure consistent execution.
• Ensure cross-team alignment, knowledge sharing, and technical consistency across the organization.
• Lead initiatives for incident response, performance monitoring, and post-mortems.
• Act as a point of escalation for complex operational or technical challenges.
• Leverage AI to uncover opportunities that improve product experiences, streamline operations, and enhance team productivity.

Key Skills

• Deep expertise in Laravel/PHP backend systems, with experience designing scalable, maintainable, and high-performance platforms.
• Proven ability to lead and enable high-performing engineering teams, setting standards for quality and execution.
• 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

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 5+ years in a leadership role, guiding teams in a high-growth environment.

• Proven experience delivering high-traffic, mission-critical platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to own technical strategy, operational processes, and team enablement.
• 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.