Generalist Software Engineer
think · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ·
- Employment
- Full time
- Category
- Software engineering
Generalist software engineer at deep-tech startup think in Riyadh who owns problems end-to-end across the stack — serving path, control plane, tooling, and hardware interfaces — choosing the right layer to solve each problem. Requires 3+ years of production engineering and fluency in both a systems and a high-level language.
Open roles
Generalist Software Engineer
For engineers who would rather own a problem than a layer. You will move between the serving path, the control plane, the tooling and the hardware interface, wherever the work is most useful that quarter.
Team Software
Location Riyadh
Type Full time
What you will do
- Take a problem from ambiguous to shipped, choosing the layer it should be solved at.
- Move across the stack: services, interfaces, data paths and the systems underneath.
- Build tooling that removes work for everyone else.
- Read unfamiliar code quickly and change it safely.
- Own what you ship, including when it pages someone.
What you need
- Three years or more of production software engineering.
- Fluency in at least one systems language and one high-level language.
- Evidence of range: you have worked meaningfully at more than one layer.
- Comfort with ambiguity and with deciding rather than waiting.
Useful, not required
- Infrastructure, Linux or distributed systems background.
- Open source contributions.
- Experience at a small company where the boundaries were yours to draw.
What we offer
- One of the first deep tech companies in the region, building foundational technology in house.
- Meaningful ownership and impact at an early stage.
- Competitive early-stage compensation.
- Close collaboration with a small, senior team.
- Problems that combine hardware, systems and AI at scale.