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Founding Engineer
Wathba | وثبة
Riyadh, KSA
Full Time
Senior
1 months ago
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About the Role
Wathba, an early-stage Saudi startup, is looking for a senior Full-Stack Platform Engineer to build the MVP of their AI-enabled builder platform. The role involves end-to-end ownership of backend, frontend, cloud deployment, integrations, and security.
Key Skills for This Role
TypeScriptNode.jsPythonGoJavaPostgreSQL
Responsibilities
- Build the core backend system for the MVP
- Implement secure, maintainable APIs
- Design and implement the application data model
- Build authentication, authorization, and access control flows
- Implement API key management and secure request handling
- Build the foundation for usage tracking, service access, and operational visibility
- Implement rate limiting, audit logging, error handling, and platform safeguards
- Build and maintain integrations with multiple external service providers
- Build the web dashboard required for the MVP
- Deploy the platform on Google Cloud Platform
- Set up development, staging, and production environments
- Configure CI/CD pipelines
Requirements
- Strong experience building production backend systems
- Strong experience with API design, backend architecture, and platform oriented system design
- Experience with TypeScript/Node.js, Python, Go, Java, or a similar backend stack
- Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL
- Experience integrating with third party APIs in production environments
- Experience building secure authentication and authorization flows
- Ability to build practical frontend/admin interfaces using React, Next.js, or similar
- Experience deploying and operating applications on cloud infrastructure
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines
- Strong understanding of secure secrets management and environment configuration
- Expertise in spec driven development
- Strong practical understanding of using AI tools effectively in software development
Full Job Posting
About Wathba
- Wathba is an early stage Saudi startup building a platform for AI enabled builders and independent product creators. We're now preparing to build our MVP and are looking for a senior, hands on engineer to turn our approved architecture into a working, maintainable, production ready platform.
About the Role
- We're looking for a senior Full Stack Platform Engineer to lead the technical implementation of Wathba's MVP and beyond.
- This is a high ownership role for an engineer who can work independently across backend development, frontend/dashboard implementation, cloud deployment, third party integrations, security, and operational readiness.
- You'll be the main engineer responsible for building the first version of the platform implementing the architecture, making practical technical decisions, and establishing a strong foundation that future engineers can build on.
- This role is ideal for someone who has previously built production systems end to end and is comfortable working in an early stage environment with high ambiguity, fast decisions, and direct ownership.
Key Responsibilities
- Build the core backend system for the MVP
- Implement secure, maintainable APIs
- Design and implement the application data model
- Build authentication, authorization, and access control flows
- Implement API key management and secure request handling
- Build the foundation for usage tracking, service access, and operational visibility
- Implement rate limiting, audit logging, error handling, and platform safeguards
- Structure the backend to support future expansion
- Build and maintain integrations with multiple external service providers
- Handle provider specific auth, request formats, webhooks, callbacks, errors, and edge cases
- Abstract provider complexity behind clean internal interfaces
- Design integration patterns so new providers can be added with minimal effort
Required Qualifications
- Strong experience building production backend systems
- Strong experience with API design, backend architecture, and platform oriented system design
- Experience with TypeScript/Node.js, Python, Go, Java, or a similar backend stack
- Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL
- Experience integrating with third party APIs in production environments
- Experience building secure authentication and authorization flows
- Experience with API keys, access control, rate limiting, logging, and audit trails
- Ability to build practical frontend/admin interfaces using React, Next.js, or similar
- Experience deploying and operating applications on cloud infrastructure
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines
- Strong understanding of secure secrets management and environment configuration
- Expertise in spec driven development translating requirements and architecture into clear specs, implementation plans, and testable deliverables
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with GCP especially Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Secret Manager, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Pub/Sub, or Cloud Tasks
- Experience building developer platforms, API platforms, SaaS platforms, internal tools, or integration middleware
- Experience with wallet systems, metering, billing, usage tracking, or transaction ledgers
- Experience with payment, identity, logistics, telecom, or government related integrations
- Experience with multi tenant system design
- Experience with OpenAPI/Swagger and developer facing API documentation
- Experience with background jobs, queues, retries, and idempotent operations
- Previous experience as a founding engineer, early stage startup engineer, or senior engineer in a small product team
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