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Founded in 2014 with headquarters in Riyadh and offices across 5 countries, including UAE, Egypt, Jordan and Kuwait. We are currently serving customers and partners in over 35 different countries worldwide. Our innovative products have successfully processed over 6 billion (yes, billion with a B) orders so far! making Foodics one of the most rapidly evolving SaaS companies to ever emerge from the MENA region. Also Foodics has achieved three rounds of funding, with the latest raising $170 million in the largest SaaS funding round in MENA, boosting its innovation capabilities to better serve business owners.\nThe Role in a Nutshell\nFoodics Financial Services builds the money products that help restaurants and merchants across the region run their businesses: payments, capital, and cashflow tools. We operate in a regulated environment (SAMA in Saudi Arabia, with expansion into the UAE), which means we care deeply about reliability, security, and correctness. We also move fast and ship products merchants actually feel.\nWe're looking for a Lead Engineer who thinks like a product owner, builds like a full-stack engineer, and works AI-first by default.\nWhat Will You Do\nOwn problems end to end. Take ambiguous business problems from discovery through design, build, launch, and iteration. Work across backend services, APIs, data, and frontend as needed.\nSpot the gaps. Find what's missing or broken on both sides: a flow that confuses merchants, a reconciliation process that doesn't scale, a service that will fail under the next 10x of volume. Then drive the fix, even when nobody asked.\nShape product direction. Partner with Product, Design, Risk, and Compliance to define what we build and why. Challenge requirements, propose alternatives, and bring data to the conversation.\nSet the technical bar. Lead architecture decisions for systems that handle real money: idempotency, consistency, auditability, security, and observability built in from day one.\nLead the AI-first shift. Use AI tools and agents to multiply your own output, and help the team adopt them well. Identify where AI can improve our products and our engineering workflow, and build it.\nMultiply the team. Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, raise the quality of design reviews and code reviews, and make the people around you better.\nPick the right tool. Evaluate and adopt languages, frameworks, and platforms based on the problem, not habit.\nWhat Are We Looking For\n6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping and owning production systems.\nGenuine full-stack ability: comfortable designing backend services and data models, and building solid, usable frontends.\nA product mindset: you care about the user and the business outcome, not just the ticket. 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