Lead (Founding) Engineer

Livlyt; United Arab Emirates; Remote; AED 367,000 - 515,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing tech startup is seeking a Lead (Founding) Engineer to build the engineering function from scratch. You will work closely with the founders to design and develop software products. The ideal candidate has 3-5 years of experience, strong skills in full-stack development, and a passion for building products from the ground up. This is a remote position with flexible hours and competitive salary including ESOPs.

Benefits

Competitive salary

ESOPs

Flexible hours

Remote work with occasional HQ visits

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of industry experience as a full-stack software engineer.
• Experience working with REST APIs and integrations.
• Strong understanding of operating systems, databases, and networks.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop software products based on the company's roadmap.
• Manage and lead software development engineers in the team.
• Set coding standards and deploy emergency fixes as needed.

Skills

Full-stack development

API design

System design

Node.js

Javascript

Mentoring junior engineers

Education

Bachelor in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Jenkins

CircleCI

Job description

Lead (Founding) Engineer

Team

Engineering

Important

You will be the first core team member of our Engineering team working directly with the Founders to build the Engineering function from scratch. This role requires a lot of heavy lifting and startup hustle.

Position status

Open roles

Region

UAE | Remote

️Your role

You will be the founding engineer working closely with the founders on a day-to-day basis.

You will be laying the tech foundation of the company which will be internal as well as client-facing products.

You will be responsible for designing, developing, coding, and delivering software products on the roadmap of the company while also envisioning the future of engineering.

You will also manage and lead SDEs in the team

About you

You enjoy and have experience conceptualizing and building back-end solutions, APIs & FE flows.

You’ve built and maintained custom code platforms with high user volumes. You hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems.

You enjoy building a product from scratch. This means high involvement in the design process and understanding of customer wants. It also means that you enjoy making technical decisions.

You love learning technologies as you go. You always want to find the right tool for the job and don't only follow what you already know.

You are not just about engineering quality but also about customers and other stakeholders in the business.

Hands-On Engineer, would need to build POCs, set coding standards for the code base, and deploy emergency fixes when needed. You can make trade-offs between speed and quality.

Technical requirements

3-5 years of industry experience working as a full-stack software engineer. Experienced in System design & architecture

Experience working with REST APIs and integration.

Bachelor in Computer Science or similar or equivalent experience in Software Development

Strong fundamental base in operating systems, languages, databases, and networks.

Well-versed with software development and different cycles of the same.

Proven experience and good track record working in Nodejs and related tech stacks.

Strong grasp of the fundamentals of Javascript

Basic knowledge of deployment pipelines and CI/CD tools like jenkins, circleci etc.

Experience mentoring and coaching junior engineers

Experience and/or strong knowledge of object-oriented languages like Java, Python, or Golang.

Our offer

Work with a stellar team - Ex-Careem, McKinsey, and Zomato that has built and scaled products across MENA region

Opportunity to build a challenging and exciting SaaS product

Accelerated growth potential to build and lead the engineering team

Competitive salary and ESOPs

Remote role with flexible hours and occasional visits to our HQ in Dubai or Abu Dhabi

Great tech (obviously) to let you do your best at work

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