Head of Engineering – AI‑Assisted Commerce Platform

About the role

Our client is an Arabic‑first commerce platform serving merchants in Saudi Arabia. We are looking for a hands‑on leader to own product direction and engineering delivery, leveraging AI to achieve exceptional speed and quality. You will partner with the Head of Product, write and review code, direct AI agents, and take responsibility for the outcomes.

Key responsibilities

• Make architecture and implementation decisions within agreed business goals and budget.
• Lead AI‑assisted development, code review, automated testing, deployment, and operational readiness.
• Own payment correctness, reconciliation, merchant account isolation, security, and reliability.
• Plan and rehearse data migration, recovery, and rollback; reject unsafe implementations and block unsafe releases.
• Resolve delivery trade‑offs with Product and demonstrate progress through working merchant workflows.

Required profile

• Hands‑on ownership of production commerce, payments, or similarly demanding multi‑tenant systems.
• Strong architecture and debugging skills with proven experience handling integrations, incidents, and migrations.
• Demonstrated use of AI coding agents across implementation, review, and testing, with evidence of faster delivery.
• Ability to catch incorrect AI output, challenge weak tests, and independently verify correctness.
• Independent judgment, clear communication, and willingness to build directly with a small, specialist‑supported team.

Required skills

• AI coding agents
• Automated testing
• Code review
• Data migration
• Deployment
• Security
• Reliability
• Recovery
• Rollback
• Architecture implementation
• Payment correctness
• Reconciliation
• Merchant account isolation
• Operational readiness