Tech Lead: Hands-on Architect for Scalable Systems

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

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