Tech Lead

About the Role

TawanTech is seeking a Tech Lead to provide advanced technical leadership and engineering direction across development initiatives. This full-time role is based in Riyadh, Riyadh Province, and requires an individual contributor who can ensure solutions are scalable, secure, reliable, and aligned with enterprise architecture and engineering standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for a squad while maintaining an individual contributor role.
• Define technical approaches, engineering standards, and implementation patterns for assigned products.
• Lead the technical design and development of complex systems and critical components.
• Facilitate squad ceremonies and manage team-level delivery cadence and technical planning.
• Break down features into technical work and support estimation and sequencing with the Product Owner.
• Provide technical guidance to engineers and resolve complex engineering challenges.
• Review solution designs, code, and implementations for quality and architectural alignment.
• Drive engineering best practices for scalability, security, performance, maintainability, and reliability.
• Ensure squad delivery meets change governance, release, and regulatory requirements.
• Evaluate technical options and recommend appropriate technologies, frameworks, and design patterns.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, and constraints and recommend mitigations.
• Support architecture decisions and ensure consistency across integrated systems.
• Drive resolution of critical production issues requiring advanced engineering expertise.
• Mentor engineers through coaching, knowledge sharing, and code reviews, without direct people-management accountability.
• Collaborate with architecture, product, platform, quality, and engineering stakeholders on delivery.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field; a Master’s degree is preferred.
• 5-10 years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership of a delivery team.
• Deep expertise across backend or frontend engineering with strong breadth across the stack.
• Proven experience facilitating Agile delivery within a squad.
• Experience in payments, banking, or regulated financial services.
• Certifications in Cloud Architecture, Software Architecture, or other relevant professional certifications are preferred.

Application Process

The salary for this position will be disclosed during the interview process.