Lead Software Engineer – AI-First Payments Platform

Foodics; Riyad Al Khabra; On-site; SAR 260,000 - 480,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses

Equity/ Shares

Learning stipend

Job summary

Foodics is seeking a Lead Engineer for its Financial Services team to own problems end to end, crafting scalable backend, data, and frontend solutions. You will partner with Product, Design, Risk, and Compliance to drive direction and quality, while embedding AI-first practices across development and operations.

Expect to define technical roadmaps, ensure security and observability, and mentor engineers as you scale systems that process real money in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with production systems ownership.
• Genuine full-stack ability: backend services, data models, and frontends.
• A product mindset focused on user and business outcomes.
• Technology-agnostic and quick to learn new stacks.
• AI-first habits: use AI tools and agents in daily work.
• Strong systems thinking: distributed systems, APIs, data. considerations.
• Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own problems end to end from discovery to launch and iteration across backend, API, data, and frontend.
• Identify and fix gaps that impact scalability and reliability under high volume.
• Shape product direction by partnering with Product, Design, Risk, and Compliance.
• Set and uphold technical bar for secure, auditable, observable systems handling real money.
• Lead the AI-first shift, evaluating where AI can improve products and workflows.
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers to raise design and code quality.
• Choose appropriate languages, frameworks, and platforms based on the problem.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

AI-first mindset

Systems thinking

Clear communication

Ownership & accountability

Problem discovery & ownership

Tools

Containers

CI/CD

Observability

Job description

Foodics is seeking a Lead Engineer for its Financial Services team to own problems end to end, crafting scalable backend, data, and frontend solutions. You will partner with Product, Design, Risk, and Compliance to drive direction and quality, while embedding AI-first practices across development and operations.

Expect to define technical roadmaps, ensure security and observability, and mentor engineers as you scale systems that process real money in a regulated environment.