Product Engineer

About the role

We’re looking for a Product Engineer to own a portfolio of live and in-progress digital products: a fintech app, a marketplace, mobile apps. You’ll be the founder’s right hand on everything product and tech: shipping new features, keeping what’s live healthy, and spotting what needs to be upgraded before it breaks.

This is not a pure coding job and not a pure management job. You need to understand development deeply enough to direct AI coding tools and developers, judge their output, and fix problems yourself when needed.

What you’ll do

• Own multiple projects at once. Know the status, priorities and open issues of every product in the portfolio, and keep them moving in parallel.
• Ship new features. Turn ideas into clear specs and tasks, build them with AI coding agents (and developers when needed), review the result, test it, and release it.
• Maintain what’s live. Handle bugs, outages, dependency updates, security patches and app-store releases. Keep things stable without waiting to be told.
• Find what needs upgrading. Regularly audit each product (code, performance, UX, infrastructure, costs) and come back with a prioritized list of what to fix or improve, and why.
• Run the AI workflow. Write good prompts and specs for AI agents, check their work critically, and improve how we use AI across development and operations.
• Solve problems end to end. When something is broken or unclear, dig in, find the root cause and propose a fix, not just report the symptom.
• Communicate clearly. Give the founder short, honest updates: what shipped, what’s blocked, what needs a decision. Work with clients, designers and freelancers when a project needs it.
• Keep things documented. Maintain task boards, release notes and simple docs so any project can be picked up quickly.

Must-haves

• Solid development understanding. 2+ years building or shipping software. Comfortable reading code across frontend, backend and mobile (e.g. React / React Native, Node or Python, SQL, REST APIs). Understands Git, deployments, CI/CD and cloud hosting basics.
• Strong with AI tools. Uses AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor or similar) daily. Knows how to break work down for them, spot when they’re wrong, and fix the result. Can show real examples.
• Problem solver. Debugs methodically, works through unclear or messy situations, and makes sensible calls without needing every detail spelled out.
• Good communicator. Writes clear, short updates and specs in English. Explains technical issues to non-technical people. Says early when something is late or off track.
• Ownership. Treats the products as their own: follows through, keeps track of many threads, and doesn’t drop things between projects.

Nice to have

• UI/UX sense. Notices when a screen feels wrong and can suggest a better flow. A portfolio or examples of screens you improved is a big plus.
• Arabic and English: our products are Arabic-first for the GCC market.
• Experience with fintech, marketplaces or mobile app-store releases (iOS and Android).
• Experience with Supabase, Netlify / Cloudflare, or similar modern stacks.
• Has run or worked in a startup, or managed freelancers.

How we work

We’re a small, AI-first team. Much of the day-to-day development and operations work is done with AI agents, and your job is to steer them, check them and fill the gaps.

• Proactive with stakeholders. You’ll work actively with the founder, clients and partners: raise questions early, share progress and flag risks before being asked. The tools we use matter less than keeping everyone in the loop.
• The founder is often in meetings during the day, so work is mostly async: you’ll be trusted to decide and move, with a short daily check-in.
• Location: remote
• Type: full-time.