Senior Expert - Software Engineer (Checkout)
Core
Senior individual contributor providing technical ownership and leadership for critical digital product domains, specifically focusing on eliminating black-box delivery and retaining control of Qiddiya's digital platforms.
Role type
Senior Expert Software Engineer (Digital Platforms)
Builds
Large-scale, distributed, cloud-native, and highly available digital platforms including customer-facing commerce, payments, loyalty, identity, and ticketing systems.
Domain
Fintech, E-commerce, and Digital Platforms
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
End-to-end technical ownership, target architecture definition, hands-on engineering leadership, vendor team management, API design, microservices, event-driven architecture, distributed systems, resilience engineering, observability, performance engineering, security, automated testing, CI/CD, incident management, root-cause analysis, technical KPI definition, service-level objectives, knowledge transfer.
Preferred skills
Experience with customer-facing digital products, experience overseeing vendors/system integrators, experience with disaster recovery and capacity testing.
Technologies
Cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, CI/CD tools, monitoring and logging frameworks.
Responsibilities
Define and maintain target architecture and engineering standards, provide hands-on technical leadership across design and implementation, lead and challenge vendor engineering teams, review and approve technical decisions and code quality, validate vendor deliverables, ensure solution resilience and scalability, define and monitor technical KPIs and SLOs, lead incident management and root-cause analysis, maintain architecture documentation and runbooks, drive knowledge transfer to internal teams.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with technical authority
