Tech Lead - AI-Driven Gaming Platform

Dizzaract; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 320,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

24 days annual leave

Modern office in Yas Creative Hub

Job summary

Dizzaract is seeking a Tech Lead to own the technical direction of GAMED in Abu Dhabi. This hands-on leadership role involves prototyping, coding, architecture, and mentoring a small engineering team. You will balance fast delivery with quality and act as the technical voice across the organization.

You will work closely with product and leadership to translate ideas into scalable, production-ready AI-enabled gaming solutions, shipping real products used by users.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience.
• 1–2 years in a senior or technical leadership capacity.
• Proven experience shipping and maintaining live products used by real users.
• Experience building and shipping products that incorporate AI capabilities in production.
• Strong hands-on coding ability and the ability to independently write, debug, review, and reason about code.
• Practical working knowledge of Gemini and/or other AI models.
• Strong understanding of the capabilities, limitations, and appropriate application of modern AI models.
• Strong system design and architecture fundamentals.
• Ability to make pragmatic technical decisions and balance speed, quality, and scope.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly to both engineering and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience writing clear technical design documentation.
• Strong ownership and a proactive approach.
• Product-oriented mindset and genuine interest in how users experience what you build.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction and architecture of GAMED.
• Prototype and build new ideas hands-on, taking concepts through to working implementations.
• Write, review, debug, and reason about production code directly.
• Lead technical design and implementation decisions across the product.
• Write clear technical design documents that communicate implementation approaches to the wider engineering team.
• Manage, mentor, and support a small team of engineers.
• Maintain strong engineering standards while keeping the team focused on shipping.
• Make practical trade-offs between speed, quality, technical complexity, and scope.
• Proactively identify technical and product opportunities and bring proposals to the team and leadership.
• Represent GAMED’s technical perspective in conversations with senior stakeholders across the business.
• Collaborate closely with product and business stakeholders to translate ideas into technically sound solutions.
• Bring product-minded thinking into engineering decisions, considering the impact on the end-user experience.
• Help evolve GAMED from rapid experimentation and prototyping toward scalable, reliable production systems.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical leadership

Live products

AI in production

Hands-on coding

Gemini AI

System design

Technical decisions

Design documentation

Ownership

Product mindset

Job description

Dizzaract is seeking a Tech Lead to own the technical direction of GAMED in Abu Dhabi. This hands-on leadership role involves prototyping, coding, architecture, and mentoring a small engineering team. You will balance fast delivery with quality and act as the technical voice across the organization.

You will work closely with product and leadership to translate ideas into scalable, production-ready AI-enabled gaming solutions, shipping real products used by users.