Technical lead

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 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.