Tech Lead at TAWANTECH

TAWANTECH; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

TAWANTECH in الرياض is seeking a Tech Lead for an on-site, full-time role to guide development across squads and ensure scalable, secure solutions aligned with enterprise standards. This position combines technical leadership with hands-on contribution.

Responsibilities include defining engineering approaches, designing complex systems, mentoring engineers through code reviews, and coordinating with architecture, product, platform, quality, and engineering stakeholders to deliver reliable

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (Master's preferred).
• 5+ years of software engineering with technical leadership.
• Deep expertise across backend or frontend with breadth across the stack.
• Experience facilitating Agile delivery within a squad.
• Payments, banking, or regulated financial services experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for a squad while remaining an individual contributor.
• Define technical approaches, engineering standards, and implementation patterns for assigned products.
• Lead technical design and development of complex systems and critical components.
• Facilitate squad ceremonies and own team-level delivery cadence and technical planning.
• Break down features into technical work and support estimation and sequencing with the Product Owner.
• Provide technical guidance to engineers and resolve complex engineering challenges.
• Review solution designs, code and implementations for quality and architectural alignment.
• Drive engineering best practices for scalability, security, performance, maintainability, and reliability.
• Ensure squad delivery meets change governance, release, and regulatory requirements.
• Evaluate technical options and recommend appropriate technologies, frameworks, and design patterns.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, and constraints and recommend mitigations.
• Support architecture decisions and ensure consistency across integrated systems.
• Drive resolution of critical production issues requiring advanced engineering expertise.
• Mentor engineers through coaching, knowledge sharing, and code reviews, without direct people-management accountability.
• Collaborate with architecture, product, platform, quality, and engineering stakeholders on delivery.

Skills

Technical leadership

Backend/Frontend breadth

Agile delivery

Payments/Banking

Cloud architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's degree preferred

Job description

Tech Lead at TAWANTECH in الرياض, S01, SA.

This Full time on site position offers great opportunities for career growth.

Purpose: To provide advanced technical leadership and engineering direction across development initiatives, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, reliable, and aligned with enterprise architecture and engineering standards, while remaining an individual contributor role.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for a squad while remaining an individual contributor.
• Define technical approaches, engineering standards, and implementation patterns for assigned products.
• Lead technical design and development of complex systems and critical components.
• Facilitate squad ceremonies and own team-level delivery cadence and technical planning.
• Break down features into technical work and support estimation and sequencing with the Product Owner.
• Provide technical guidance to engineers and resolve complex engineering challenges.
• Review solution designs, code, and implementations for quality and architectural alignment.
• Drive engineering best practices for scalability, security, performance, maintainability, and reliability.
• Ensure squad delivery meets change governance, release, and regulatory requirements.
• Evaluate technical options and recommend appropriate technologies, frameworks, and design patterns.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, and constraints and recommend mitigations.
• Support architecture decisions and ensure consistency across integrated systems.
• Drive resolution of critical production issues requiring advanced engineering expertise.
• Mentor engineers through coaching, knowledge sharing, and code reviews, without direct people-management accountability.
• Collaborate with architecture, product, platform, quality, and engineering stakeholders on delivery.

Requirements QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field; Master's preferred.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership of a delivery team.
• Deep expertise across backend or frontend engineering with strong breadth across the stack.
• Proven experience facilitating Agile delivery within a squad.
• Payments, banking, or regulated financial services experience.
• Certifications in Cloud Architecture, Software Architecture, or other relevant professional certifications are preferred.