# Head of Engineering — webook.com

Canonical: https://jobxdubai.com/jobs/499610643e-head-of-engineering
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Type: full_time · Level: senior
Monthly salary: AED 58,800 to 107,800 per month (estimated, not employer-stated) (UAE salaries are tax-free)
Posted: 2026-02-26
Apply: https://apply.workable.com/j/499610643E

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## Description

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 Focus Areas
Leadership & Team Enablement
- Lead and enable engineering teams, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence.
- Define and communicate the technical vision, priorities, and roadmap, aligning engineering efforts with business goals.
- Provide guidance and mentorship on architecture, system design, and technical decision-making.
- Drive team performance and operational efficiency, ensuring smooth day-to-day execution.
- Support hiring, onboarding, and career development within the engineering function.
Technical Oversight & Strategy
- Oversee system architecture and technical standards, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Review and approve major technical initiatives, balancing innovation with operational stability.
- Promote engineering best practices in coding, documentation, testing, and observability.
- Contribute to high-impact technical decisions when required, providing hands-on guidance for complex problems.
Operational Excellence
- Monitor engineering processes, workflows, and delivery metrics to ensure consistent execution.
- Ensure cross-team alignment, knowledge sharing, and technical consistency across the organization.
- Lead initiatives for incident response, performance monitoring, and post-mortems.
- Act as a point of escalation for complex operational or technical challenges.
- Leverage AI to uncover opportunities that improve product experiences, streamline operations, and enhance team productivity.

Key Skills
- Deep expertise in Laravel/PHP backend systems, with experience designing scalable, maintainable, and high-performance platforms.
- Proven ability to lead and enable high-performing engineering teams, setting standards for quality and execution.
- 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.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- 5+ years in a leadership role, guiding teams in a high-growth environment.
- Proven experience delivering high-traffic, mission-critical platforms.
- Demonstrated ability to own technical strategy, operational processes, and team enablement.
- 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.

## Requirements

10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
5+ years in a leadership role, guiding teams in a high-growth environment.
Proven experience delivering high-traffic, mission-critical platforms.
Demonstrated ability to own technical strategy, operational processes, and team enablement.
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.

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