# Staff Engineer

About the role The Foundations squad owns the platform that makes Lean's AI ambitions real - the shared libraries, developer infrastructure, and agentic loops that engineers across the company depend on every day. As Staff Engineer, you'll be the technical heartbeat of the team: the person who makes the hard architectural calls, keeps standards high under delivery pressure, and ensures that what we build today doesn't become tomorrow's bottleneck. About Lean Lean is the leading financial infrastructure provider in the Middle East. We power some of the region's largest companies with APIs that enable payments, account verification, financial data access, and other critical financial infrastructure. What started as the region's pioneering Open Banking platform and quickly became the de facto leader in account aggregation and payment initiation in the region is now becoming something bigger: a multi-product infrastructure company powering payments, data, and lending across MENA. We've processed billions of dollars in transactions. We're trusted by 350+ clients - from Tabby and Tas'heel to Hungerstation - and backed by General Catalyst, Sequoia, and Shorooq. Our $67.5M Series B was jus

- **Id**: 4012723
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/lean-technologies-staff-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- **Countries**: SA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T09:35:46Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T19:19:38Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5988
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Financial Software & Embedded Finance, Digital Banks & Neobanks

## Company

- **Id**: 48955
- **Name**: Lean Technologies
- **Domain**: leantech.me
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/lean-technologies>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **Spring Boot** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: yes
- **Prompt Engineering** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: Arabic; Level: All levels; Optional: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T11:00:02Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

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