<p><strong>Who Are We</strong>❓<br><em>We Are <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/foodics">Foodics</a>!</em> a leading restaurant management ecosystem and payment tech provider. Founded in 2014 with headquarter in Riyadh and offices across 5 countries, including UAE, Egypt, Jordan and Kuwait. We are currently serving customers and partners in over 35 different countries worldwide. Our innovative products have successfully processed over 6 billion (yes, billion with a B) orders so far! making <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/foodics">Foodics</a> one of the most rapidly evolving SaaS companies to ever emerge from the MENA region. Also <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/foodics">Foodics</a> has achieved three rounds of funding, with the latest raising $170 million in the largest SaaS funding round in MENA, boosting its innovation capabilities to better serve business owners.</p><h3>The Job in a Nutshell💡 </h3><p>We're hiring a Senior Engineer to lead significant pieces of work on our platform - from shaping the problem with Product, through designing the solution, to shipping it and supporting it in production. You'll be a key technical voice on the team, helping to set the bar for what good looks like and mentoring others as you go. You'll be working with modern PHP and TypeScript/React on a platform that processes hundreds of thousands of orders a week. The challenges are real, the autonomy is high, and the team is small enough that your decisions matter.</p><h3>What Will You Do❓</h3><ul><li>Lead the development of new features end-to-end - from refining the requirements with Product through to shipping and monitoring in production.</li><li>Drive the technical design of significant system changes and set development standards for the Backend team.</li><li>Mentor others and be willing to learn from them in turn.</li><li>Enthuse about new technology and look for pragmatic opportunities to enhance our existing technology stack.</li><li>Operate with autonomy: identify problems, propose solutions, and follow through without needing to be managed.</li></ul><h3>What Are We Looking For❓</h3><p><strong>Backend depth:</strong> Comfortable leading non-trivial work in modern PHP (7/8+) - Object-Oriented Design, testability, and the trade-offs of common patterns are second nature.</p><p><strong>Frontend competence:</strong> Can ship production React/TypeScript features end-to-end without supervision.</p><p><strong>Scale experience:</strong> You've worked on high-traffic web applications and understand what breaks at scale - database hotspots, caching, queueing, idempotency, observability.</p><p><strong>Relational databases:</strong> Practical experience with MySQL or similar - you can read an EXPLAIN plan and fix a slow query without guessing.</p><p><strong>Integration work:</strong> Experience designing and consuming HTTP APIs, including handling the messy realities of third-party reliability.</p><p><strong>AI-assisted development: </strong