Engineering Manager

Who Are We❓

We Are Foodics! a leading restaurant management ecosystem and payment tech provider. Founded in 2014 with headquarter in Riyadh and offices across 5 countries, including UAE, Egypt, Jordan and Kuwait. We are currently serving customers and partners in over 35 different countries worldwide. Our innovative products have successfully processed over 6 billion (yes, billion with a B) orders so far! making Foodics one of the most rapidly evolving SaaS companies to ever emerge from the MENA region. Also Foodics has achieved three rounds of funding, with the latest raising $170 million in the largest SaaS funding round in MENA, boosting its innovation capabilities to better serve business owners.

The Job in a Nutshell💡

Foodics powers thousands of restaurants across the region — point of sale, payments, inventory, and the operational backbone underneath. We're building our own ERP platform: the system of record that sits under everything a merchant runs on Foodics.

This is an unusual EM role, so we'll be blunt about it. Today the team has three engineers and there is no team to manage. You will spend most of your time writing code — building the core platform and its integrations into inventory, payments and the POS, shoulder to shoulder with the other engineers.

What you're really being hired for is the second act. As the product matures into a real line of business at Foodics, you're the person who builds the team around it — hiring, structure, process, the whole thing. We want that team built by someone who wrote the first version of the system, not someone who inherited it.

If you're looking to step away from the keyboard, this isn't the role. If you want to build something from zero and then build the team that owns it, it is.

What Will You Do❓

• Write production code as a core contributor, not as a manager who occasionally picks up a ticket
• Own significant parts of the system end to end: core modules, the transactional foundation, regulatory compliance, integration surface
• Make the architectural calls that determine whether this platform survives five years and be accountable for them
• Set the engineering bar by example: code review standards, testing discipline, how we use AI tooling and where we don't trust it
• Work directly with the PM and our domain experts to turn business requirements into a system
• Own hiring: define the roles, run the loop, make the calls
• Grow the engineers already here into people who can run pieces of this independently
• Introduce process at the point it's needed and not before
• Carry the product through its handover into the core business, with the team intact

Requirements

What Are We Looking For❓

• 7+ years engineering, with time spent leading — as an EM, tech lead, or founding engineer
• Currently hands-on. Coding regularly in your present role, not two years removed from it
• Meaningful experience building ERP or accounting systems — you understand double-entry, period close, and why a ledger isn't just another table
• Strong full stack. Comfortable from schema to screen
• AI-native way of working. Agents and LLM tooling are part of your daily practice, and you have judgment about where their output holds up and where it doesn't
• Built something from zero in a small team with unclear requirements and short cycles
• Genuinely wants both halves of this job — the building now, and the team-building later
• Able to work substantially within GMT+3 hours

Who Will Excel❓

• Built or operated a ledger, double-entry engine, or transaction-processing system at scale
• Fintech, banking, payments or financial services background
• Hired and grown an engineering team from the first few people
• Familiarity with ERP platforms (ERPNext, Odoo, NetSuite, SAP)
• ZATCA e-invoicing or comparable regional regulatory work

What We Offer You❗

We believe you will love working at Foodics!

• We offer highly competitive compensation packages, including bonuses and the potential for shares
• We prioritize personal development and offer regular training and an annual learning stipend to tackle new challenges and grow your career in a hyper-growth environment
• Join a talented team of over 30 nationalities working in 14 countries, and gain valuable experience in an exciting industry
• We offer autonomy, mentoring, and challenging goals that create incredible opportunities for both you and the company