Description
Who are we?
We are Foodics! A leading restaurant management ecosystem and payment tech provider. Founded in 2014 with headquarters in Riyadh and offices across five countries, including UAE, Egypt, Jordan, and Kuwait. We are currently serving customers and partners in over 35 different countries worldwide. Our innovative products have successfully processed over 6 billion (yes, billion with a B) orders so far, making Foodics one of the most rapidly evolving SaaS companies to ever emerge from the MENA region. Foodics has achieved three rounds of funding, with the latest raising $170 million in the largest SaaS funding round in MENA, boosting its innovation capabilities to better serve business owners.
The job in a nutshell
We're hiring a senior engineer to lead significant pieces of work on our platform—from shaping the problem with Product, through designing the solution, to shipping it and supporting it in production. You'll be a key technical voice on the team, helping to set the bar for what good looks like and mentoring others as you go. You'll be working with modern PHP and TypeScript/React on a platform that processes hundreds of thousands of orders a week. The challenges are real, the autonomy is high, and the team is small enough that your decisions matter.
What will you do?
- Lead the development of new features end-to-end—from refining the requirements with Product through to shipping and monitoring in production.
- Drive the technical design of significant system changes and set development standards for the backend team.
- Mentor others and be willing to learn from them in turn.
- Enthuse about new technology and look for pragmatic opportunities to enhance our existing technology stack.
- Operate with autonomy: identify problems, propose solutions, and follow through without needing to be managed.
What are we looking for?
- Backend depth: Comfortable leading non-trivial work in modern PHP (7/8+)—object-oriented design, testability, and the trade-offs of common patterns are second nature.
- Frontend competence: Can ship production React/TypeScript features end-to-end without supervision.
- Scale experience: You've worked on high-traffic web applications and understand what breaks at scale—database hotspots, caching, queueing, idempotency, observability.
- Relational databases: Practical experience with MySQL or similar—you can read an EXPLAIN plan and fix a slow query without guessing.
- Integration work: Experience designing and consuming HTTP APIs, including handling the messy realities of third-party reliability.
- AI-assisted development: You use modern AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar) as part of your daily workflow—and you have a healthy scepticism of their output. You can tell when the model is bluffing and you don't merge code you don't understand.
- Product partnership: Can work with product managers to refine requirements, push back constructively, and give honest estimates.
- Communication: Can explain technical decisions to non-engineers and write clearly enough that async collaboration actually works.
- Judgment: Strong problem-solving, attention to detail, and the instinct to ask "do we actually need this?" before adding complexity.
Who will excel?
- DevOps experience with a major cloud provider (AWS / GCP / Azure).
- Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines.
- Python, Node, or other backend languages—we care more about polyglot instinct than the specific stack.
- Elasticsearch, GraphQL.
- Experience evaluating or building features that incorporate LLMs into a product (prompt design, RAG, evals, cost/latency trade-offs).
What we offer you?
- Curated career progression planning with formal yearly reviews and informal check-ins along the way.
- Encouragement to grow into a feature development lead.
- A competitive salary.
- Ample time to learn new concepts—including paid development and business-related conferences.
- Fully remote working, no commuting expenses.
- Flexible work hours. We'll need you around for a 10am stand-up; otherwise you work as and when it suits you.
- 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays), with an additional day per year of service.
- Regular all-company socials and quarterly team socials.
- A team that genuinely likes learning and shipping together.