Do you want to love what you do at work Do you want to make a difference, an impact, transform peoples lives Do you want to work with a team that believes in disrupting the normal, boring, and average
If yes, then this is the job you're looking for ,webook.com is Saudi's #1 event ticketing and experience booking platforms in terms of technology, features, agility, revenue serving some of the largest mega events in the Kingdom surpassing over 2 billion sales.
Role Overview
This is an individual contributor role focused on solving complex technical problems through hands-on engineering, architecture, and technical influence, rather than people management.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership & Architecture
- Drive the system architecture to support large-scale, high-traffic, mission-critical platforms
- Design and review scalable, secure, fault-tolerant, and high-performance systems
- Set engineering standards, best practices, and design patterns across teams
- Lead architectural discussions, technical RFCs, and critical design decisions
- Identify and proactively address technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and scalability challenges
Hands-on Engineering
- Contribute to complex, high-impact backend features and critical services when needed
- Guide teams on designing persistence, caching, and data access strategies using SQL and NoSQL
- Ensure APIs follow best-in-class RESTful JSON design principles
- Review code to ensure quality, security, maintainability, and performance
Product & Business Collaboration
- Partner closely with Product, Operations, and Leadership to translate business goals into technical solutions
- Provide technical input and execution guidance on the product roadmap
- Balance speed of delivery with long-term system sustainability and maintainability
Operational Excellence
- Ensure systems are observable, reliable, and production-ready
- Lead performance monitoring, incident response, and post-mortems for critical systems
- Promote best practices in documentation, diagrams, and architectural flowcharts
- Act as a point of escalation for complex operational or technical challenges
- Leverage AI to uncover opportunities that improve product experiences, streamline operations, and enhance team productivity
Key Skills
- Deep expertise in PHP/Laravel, including design patterns, architectural components, frameworks, and best practices for building scalable, maintainable, and high-performance backend systems
- Experience with designing persistence and caching models across SQL and NoSQL databases, optimized for high concurrency, low latency, and system resilience
- Strong, hands-on experience with MongoDB at scale
- Advanced understanding of RESTful JSON API design, integration with frontend/mobile clients, and backend security principles
- Solid experience in documenting software solutions using diagrams and flowcharts
- Ability to see the big picture while maintaining attention to detail
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills (fluent English speaking and writing)
- Experience in Scrum and Agile methodology
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), CI/CD pipelines, and containerized deployments is a plus
Requirements
- 12+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 5+ years of hands-on experience building backend systems using Laravel/PHP
- Proven experience delivering high-traffic, mission-critical platforms
- Demonstrated ability to own architecture and drive technical direction across multiple teams
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience contributing to open-source projects or technical thought leadership is a plus
