About the Role
If you want to love what you do at work, make a difference, and transform people's lives, this position is for you. You will join a team committed to disrupting the normal, boring, and average. This role is part of a leading event ticketing and experience booking platform, known for its advanced technology and agility, having achieved over 2 billion in sales while serving some of the Kingdom's largest mega events.
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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.
