Principle Engineer

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