Head of Engineering

Prospex Development; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 1 - 2; Full time

Job summary

Prospex Development is seeking two hands-on leaders in Saudi Arabia to own product direction and engineering delivery, leveraging AI to drive speed and quality for a commerce platform serving merchants. You will write and review code, direct AI agents, and assume responsibility for the result.

Lead architecture decisions, ensure technical readiness, and partner with Product to translate merchant needs into dependable software.

Qualifications

• Hands-on ownership of production commerce or multi-tenant systems.
• Strong architecture and debugging skills with experience in integrations, incidents, and migrations.
• Experience using AI coding agents across implementation, review, and testing.
• Ability to verify correctness and challenge weak tests.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Software architecture

Code review

AI-assisted development

System integration

Communication

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud platforms

Monitoring tools

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.