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Staff Software Engineer

Unlock employer Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Posted: 13 Sep 2025

Financial

  • Estimate: $40k - $60k*
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Apply from abroad
  • Relocation Support
  • Visa Provided

Requirements

  • Experience: Senior
  • English: Professional

Position

We are looking for a highly talented Staff Software Engineer to join our team in Riyadh. If you are looking for a place where you can both show hands-on experience creating direct impact, and drive engineering excellence enhancements, then this may be the place for you! An ideal candidate will have a track record as a significant individual contributor as well as a strong team player, being able to drive complex tech initiatives end-to-end across multiple teams.

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Responsibilities

  • Own technical agenda and drive complex technical initiatives within your domain
  • Be a go-to person for your engineering community with deep tech expertise
  • Set standards of engineering excellence and lead engineers by example
  • Coach and mentor other engineers as a senior member of our Backend chapter
  • Play a major role in architectural decision-making on a platform that is used by millions of people
  • Actively participate in designing, improving and securing the overall backend architecture to support massive growth in users and products
  • Support teams in infrastructure management in a cloud environment
  • Embrace Design Driven Development, SOLID Principles, Event-driven Architecture, Algorithms, and automated tests (unit, integration, and functional)
  • Understand development lifecycle and collaborate with cross-functional and agile teams
  • Participate in ongoing efforts of test coverage, refactoring and documentation
  • Show off your code review, debugging, and investigation skills regularly

Requirements

  • More than 8 years of experience in several programming languages like GoLang, RoR, Java, Python, NodeJs, or PHP
  • Be active in the local technical scene (meetups, LinkedIn, Stack Overflow, etc.)
  • Strong experience with common observability tools such as Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, etc.
  • Major experience building complex, high-quality applications with strong knowledge of Domain Driven Design and microservice architecture
  • Expert in selecting from best practice design patterns and principles when building software architectures and algorithms
  • Strong knowledge of several databases and their tradeoffs, like PostgreSQL, MySQL, and NoSQL
  • Flexible and open-minded personality and comfortable working with multiple teams
  • Strong experience working with Docker, Kubernetes, GCP, AWS, and Terraform

Work Conditions

  • We offer visa and relocation support globally to our permanent employees.
  • Access to e-learning platforms and various in-house training, including German language options.
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