Technical Lead, Software Development, Software Architect

Do you want to love what you do at work? Do you want to make a difference, an impact, transform peoples lives? Do you want to work with a team that believes in disrupting the normal, boring, and average?

If yes, then this is the job you're looking for ,webook.comis Saudi's #1 event ticketing and experience booking platforms in terms of technology, features, agility, revenue serving some of the largest mega events in the Kingdom surpassing over 2 billion sales.

• Act as the technical leader for your squad, owning system design, code quality, and engineering standards.
• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, reliable, and maintainable software solutions.
• Contribute hands-on to the codebase when needed, especially for complex or high-impact areas.
• Review code, guide architectural decisions, and ensure best practices in testing, documentation, and observability.
• Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term system health and sustainability.

• Lead, mentor, and support software engineers, helping them grow technically and professionally.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Support onboarding and knowledge sharing within the team.
• Provide clear technical direction while empowering engineers to make strong decisions.

• Own end-to-end execution for your team’s deliverables, from planning to production.
• Work closely with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Ensure alignment between product priorities, technical execution, and platform standards.
• Act as the first point of escalation for technical or delivery challenges within your team.

• Ensure production readiness, performance, and reliability of owned services.
• Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-mortems.
• Continuously improve development workflows, tooling, and team productivity.
• Leverage AI and automation where possible to improve engineering efficiency and product quality.

• Deep expertise in Laravel/PHP backend systems, with experience designing scalable, maintainable, and high-performance platforms.
• Solid knowledge of software development best practices, including code quality, testing, documentation, and observability.
• Deep understanding of large-scale, high-performance platforms, including SQL/No
  
  SQL, caching, and concurrency.
• Strong strategic and operational planning skills, balancing short-term delivery with long-term system sustainability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (fluent English speaking and writing).
• Experience in Scrum and Agile methodology
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), CI/CD pipelines, and containerized deployments is a plus.

• 3–5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proven experience delivering high-traffic, mission-critical platforms.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience contributing to open-source projects or technical thought leadership is a plus.