Generalist Software Engineer

think; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

think in Riyadh is seeking a Generalist Software Engineer who thrives on owning problems across the stack, from the serving path to the hardware interface.

You will move between services, control plane, tooling and data paths, building practical solutions that ship and scale in an early-stage, hardware-aware environment.

This role requires three years of production software experience, fluency in multiple languages, and comfort with ambiguity and shipping decisions.

Qualifications

• Three years of production software engineering experience.
• Fluency in at least one systems language and one high-level language.
• Experience across multiple layers of a software stack.

Responsibilities

• Take a problem from ambiguous to shipped, and decide the layer to solve.
• Move across services, interfaces, data paths and underlying systems.
• Build tooling to reduce workload for colleagues.
• Read unfamiliar code quickly and modify it safely.
• Own what you ship, including on-call responsibilities.

Skills

Production software engineering

Systems programming

Ambiguity tolerance

Cross-layer experience

Job description

Open roles

Generalist Software Engineer

For engineers who would rather own a problem than a layer. You will move between the serving path, the control plane, the tooling and the hardware interface, wherever the work is most useful that quarter.

Team Software

Location Riyadh

Type Full time

What you will do

• Take a problem from ambiguous to shipped, choosing the layer it should be solved at.
• Move across the stack: services, interfaces, data paths and the systems underneath.
• Build tooling that removes work for everyone else.
• Read unfamiliar code quickly and change it safely.
• Own what you ship, including when it pages someone.

What you need

• Three years or more of production software engineering.
• Fluency in at least one systems language and one high-level language.
• Evidence of range: you have worked meaningfully at more than one layer.
• Comfort with ambiguity and with deciding rather than waiting.

Useful, not required

• Infrastructure, Linux or distributed systems background.
• Open source contributions.
• Experience at a small company where the boundaries were yours to draw.

What we offer

• One of the first deep tech companies in the region, building foundational technology in house.
• Meaningful ownership and impact at an early stage.
• Competitive early-stage compensation.
• Close collaboration with a small, senior team.
• Problems that combine hardware, systems and AI at scale.