Technical lead

  • Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • On-site
  • Full-time
  • Posted
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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.

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About webook.com

Overview

webook.com is a booking platform where people buy tickets for football matches, events, experiences and shows and book restaurants.