Founding Engineer

Appsierra Group; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Appsierra Group is seeking two hands-on leaders to own product direction and engineering delivery for an Arabic-first commerce platform in Saudi Arabia. You will write and review code, direct AI agents, and take responsibility for the end-to-end result.

Join a small, focused team to drive architecture decisions, ensure payment correctness, and coordinate with Product to deliver reliable merchant workflows through AI-assisted development.

Qualifications

• Hands-on ownership of production commerce and payments systems.
• Proven experience with multi-tenant architectures and integrations.
• Ability to guide AI agents and verify generated code.
• Strong communication and independent judgment.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture and implementation decisions within goals and budget.
• Lead AI-assisted development, code review, testing, deployment, and readiness.
• Own payment correctness, reconciliation, merchant isolation, security.
• Plan migrations, rollback, and safe releases.
• Collaborate with Product to demonstrate merchant workflows.

Skills

Architecture design

AI-assisted development

Payments systems

Multi-tenant systems

Code review

Incident management

Job description

Our Client is an Arabic-first commerce platform for merchants in Saudi Arabia. We are hiring two hands-on leaders to own product direction and engineering delivery, using AI to help a small team achieve exceptional speed and quality.

Own our Client's architecture, implementation, and technical readiness. Partner with the Head of Product to turn merchant needs into dependable software. You will write and review code, direct AI agents, and take responsibility for the result.

What you will own

• - Make architecture and implementation decisions within agreed business goals and budget.
• - Lead AI-assisted development, code review, automated testing, deployment, and operational readiness.
• - Own payment correctness, reconciliation, merchant account isolation, security, and reliability.
• - Plan and rehearse data migration, recovery, and rollback; reject unsafe implementations and block unsafe releases.
• - Resolve delivery tradeoffs with Product and show progress through working merchant workflows.

What you bring

• - Hands-on ownership of production commerce, payments, or similarly demanding multi-tenant systems.
• - Strong architecture and debugging skills, with examples of handling integrations, incidents, and migrations.
• - Demonstrated use of AI coding agents across implementation, review, and testing, with evidence of faster delivery.
• - The ability to catch incorrect AI output, challenge weak tests, and independently verify correctness.
• - Independent judgment and clear communication; willingness to build directly with a small team and specialist support.

AI-assisted delivery is mandatory. You must demonstrate both effective agent use and the engineering judgment to inspect, correct, and take responsibility for generated code.

First 90 days

Establish the technical baseline, agree a credible delivery plan with Product, demonstrate complete priority workflows, and rehearse representative migration and rollback. Commit to a pilot date after assessing readiness and dependencies.