PLG Sr Backend Engineer / Lead (Remote)

Lucidya; Saudi Arabia; Remote; SAR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A technological company in the Middle East is seeking a Backend Engineer/Lead to oversee backend development for their PLG product. The role involves leading a team of engineers, designing scalable architectures, and collaborating with various teams to drive growth and retention strategies. Strong leadership and backend development experience required.

Qualifications

• Experience in backend development with a focus on scalability and reliability.
• Strong leadership skills to manage and mentor a team.
• Familiarity with A/B testing and feature flagging.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of backend engineers, ensuring best practices.
• Design and implement scalable backend architectures.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align development with PLG goals.

Skills

Backend development

Team leadership

System architecture

PLG metrics instrumentation

CI/CD processes

Job description

About Lucidya

Lucidya empowers brands to unlock the power of customer intelligence across the Middle East and beyond. As part of our Product-Led Growth (PLG) strategy, we are building frictionless, self-serve experiences that accelerate adoption, engagement, and long-term success.

The PLG Squad drives this mission, creating onboarding journeys, trial-to-paid conversions, in-app growth loops, and customer experiences that directly impact growth and retention.

Joining this team means working on high-impact, customer-facing projects that shape Lucidya’s global expansion and PLG success.

Role Overview

As a Backend Engineer / Lead, you will architect, scale, and optimize the backend foundations of Lucidya Light’s PLG product. Your work will power experimentation, self-serve onboarding, trial-to-paid conversions, and retention loops at scale.

You will lead a team of backend engineers, design resilient systems, and ensure the infrastructure supports fast, data-driven product experiments and smooth end-to-end user experiences.

Key Responsibilities

1. Team Leadership
   • Lead, mentor, and manage backend engineers, fostering collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
   • Establish best practices for backend development, code reviews, and testing standards.
2. PLG-Driven Development
   • Guide the team to build backend systems that enable self-serve onboarding, trial-to-paid conversions, and retention loops.
   • Support experimentation with feature flags, A/B testing, and PLG metrics instrumentation.
3. System Architecture
   • Design and implement robust, scalable backend architectures optimized for rapid iteration and growth experiments.
   • Identify bottlenecks and optimize system performance, scalability, and reliability.
4. Cross-Team Collaboration
   • Work closely with Product Managers, Frontend Developers, and Designers to align backend capabilities with PLG goals.
   • Ensure seamless integrations, secure APIs, and smooth data flows.
5. DevOps & Reliability
   • Oversee CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, and system monitoring/recovery.
   • Continuously improve infrastructure to support growth and experimentation.
6. Innovation & Growth
   • Stay current with backend technologies and PLG best practices.
   • Introduce frameworks, tools, and processes that improve developer velocity and user experience.