Senior Full Stack Engineer

Foodics

5d • Remote

About The Position

We are Foodics, a leading restaurant management ecosystem and payment tech provider founded in 2014 with headquarters in Riyadh and offices across 5 countries. We serve customers in over 35 countries worldwide and have processed over 6 billion orders. Foodics is one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in the MENA region, having recently raised $170 million in funding. We are hiring a Senior Engineer to lead significant development efforts on our platform, from problem definition and solution design to production deployment and support. This role involves being a key technical voice, setting high standards, and mentoring team members. You will work with modern PHP and TypeScript/React on a high-volume platform, facing real challenges with significant autonomy.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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).

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of new features end-to-end, from refining 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.

Benefits

• 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.
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays), with an additional day per year of service.
• Regular all-company socials and quarterly team socials.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed