Technical Lead

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.com is 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership & Delivery 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
• Team Enablement 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
• Execution & Collaboration 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
• Operational Excellence 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
• Key Skills 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/NoSQL, 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

Desired Candidate Profile

Key Skills 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/NoSQL, 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.