Technical Director

3 hours ago

Riyadh, Ar Riyāḑ, Saudi Arabia PrivateCRCL Full time

Technical Director

B2B2C Social & Lifestyle Platform | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

We're building a scalable social and lifestyle platform
connecting consumers and businesses across Saudi Arabia. We're looking for a
Tech
Director
to own technical execution, scale the platform, and lead a growing engineering team across backend, web, and mobile.

This is a senior,
hands-on
leadership role for someone comfortable owning
architecture, delivery, and people
— and
wearing multiple hats
, including
coding when needed
.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and scale engineering teams across backend, frontend, mobile, and QA.
  • Own platform architecture, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
  • Oversee development of web and mobile applications with shared logic and consistent delivery.
  • Drive backend systems built on stateless services designed for horizontal scaling.
  • Own secure, high-throughput media pipelines and global content delivery strategies.
  • Establish engineering standards, CI/CD practices, observability, and operational readiness.
  • Partner closely with founders to align technical execution with business goals.
  • Ensure platform security and compliance with relevant Saudi data and platform regulations.
  • Step in hands-on: prototype, review critical code, unblock teams, and contribute directly when needed.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in engineering leadership.
  • Strong backend experience designing scalable APIs and distributed systems.
  • Solid experience delivering web and mobile applications in production.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure, load balancing, auto-scaling, and CDN-based delivery.
  • Comfortable owning media-heavy platforms (uploads, storage, delivery, optimization).
  • Proven ability to hire, mentor, and lead senior engineers.
  • Startup mindset: adaptable, fast-moving, and comfortable with ambiguity and switching priorities.
  • Fluent in Arabic and English

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