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About the Role

Discovered MENA is seeking a Saudi National Staff AI Software Engineer for a full-time position in Riyadh. This role requires a blend of hands-on software development and technical leadership, focusing on building software and elevating engineering standards within the team.

Role Overview

This position is structured as 50% hands-on coding and 50% technical leadership. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with the engineering team to establish best practices, enhance development workflows, and contribute to sprint planning and technical execution. The role is based in Riyadh and requires 5-10 years of experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale modern full-stack applications with an emphasis on performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Provide technical leadership through mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, and advocating for engineering best practices.
• Define coding standards, software architecture, and development processes to improve quality and consistency across the engineering team.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineering Leadership to shape sprint planning, break down technical initiatives, estimate work, and improve delivery processes.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with experience at Staff, Principal, or Technical Lead level.
• Strong commercial experience with Java and the Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring MVC).
• Full-stack development experience using React, ****, TypeScript, and modern frontend technologies.
• Experience designing and building distributed, microservices-based architectures.
• Experience building and consuming REST APIs and event-driven systems.
• Experience with PostgreSQL and/or MongoDB.
• Experience with Docker, containerization, Git, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native development.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, scalability, and system performance.
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction across multiple teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience building AI-native products or integrating LLMs into production systems.
• Hands-on experience with RAG, AI agents, vector databases, LangChain, LangGraph, MCP, or similar AI frameworks.
• Experience with Python and FastAPI for AI services.
• Experience working in high-growth startups or scaling technology businesses.
• Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience working with AI coding assistants such as Claude, Codex, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment with a high degree of ownership.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh. The role operates within a fast-paced startup environment that requires a high degree of ownership.