Tech Lead

Posted 21 Days Ago
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Riyadh, SAU
In-Office
Senior level
Fintech • Information Technology • Payments • Software • Financial Services
The Role
Provides advanced technical leadership while remaining an individual contributor. Defines engineering standards, technical approaches, and design patterns; leads complex system development; facilitates Agile delivery; reviews designs and code; resolves critical production issues; manages technical risks and dependencies; and mentors engineers. Collaborates with product, architecture, platform, quality, and engineering stakeholders to ensure scalable, secure, reliable, maintainable, and compliant solutions.
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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.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership of a delivery team
  • Deep expertise in backend or frontend engineering with strong breadth across the stack
  • Experience facilitating Agile delivery within a squad
  • Experience in payments, banking, or regulated financial services
  • Master’s degree
  • Certification in Cloud Architecture, Software Architecture, or another relevant area
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The Company
HQ: Riyadh
39 Employees

What We Do

We are TAWANTECH, a dynamic and innovative company that specializes in financial technology solutions and services, with a team of passionate professionals and a commitment to excellence, we are dedicated to delivering exceptional solutions that meet the unique needs of our clients.

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