Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

Who Are We

We Are Foodics! a leading restaurant management ecosystem and payment tech provider. Founded in 2014 with headquarters 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

We are hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to sit between our customers and our product. You will embed with strategic merchants and partners, ship production code that solves their problems, and turn what you learn into reusable platform capabilities.

Large chains and integration partners often need more than configuration: custom integrations, data flows and workflows that stretch the product. You own that work end to end, from the first discovery call to production rollout. This is a full-stack, customer facing engineering role. You write real code in our .NET microservices, Kafka-based event backbone and front-end apps, and you are measured on customer outcomes, not tickets closed.

What Will You Do

Embed with customers

• Work directly with enterprise merchants, franchise groups and integration partners to understand their operations, systems and pain points.
• Run technical discovery: map their workflows, data and existing systems (ERP, delivery aggregators, loyalty, payment providers) against Foodics capabilities.
• Scope solutions, set clear expectations, and own delivery dates with the customer. Build and ship production software
• Design and build backend services and integrations in .NET (C#) following Clean Architecture and CQRS.
• Build event-driven flows on Kafka: producers, consumers, retries, dead-letter handling, idempotency and schema evolution.
• Use Redis for caching, rate limiting and short-lived state, with sound invalidation and TTL strategies.
• Build or extend front-end experiences (web apps, admin tools, mini-apps) when the solution needs a UI.
• Ship through CI/CD and own what you ship: observability in Datadog, alerts, runbooks and on-call for your deployments.

Turn field work into product

• Spot patterns across customers and propose platform features instead of one-off forks.
• Write clear specs and handover docs so core teams can adopt and maintain what you built.
• Be the voice of the customer in roadmap discussions, backed by data on usage, impact and effort.

Build the FDE motion

• Turn one-off deployments into repeatable playbooks, tooling, SDKs and reference integrations.
• Help define how FDE engagements are scoped and measured, and share learnings across Product, Engineering, Solutions and Customer Success.

What Are We Looking For

• 6+ years building and running production software, including 3+ years on backend systems at scale.
• A track record of owning work end to end, from an ambiguous problem to a solution running in production.
• Experience working directly with customers, partners or business stakeholders and turning their needs into technical plans.
• Strong C# and .NET (.NET 8+), ASP.NET Core APIs and microservices design; Clean Architecture, CQRS/MediatR and DDD fundamentals.
• Hands-on Kafka in production: partitioning, consumer groups, delivery semantics, idempotency, retries and DLQs, and the outbox pattern.
• Redis in production: cache-aside, TTL and invalidation, distributed locks and rate limiting, with awareness of consistency trade-offs.
• Solid relational modelling and SQL (PostgreSQL or SQL Server), with Dapper or EF Core and query performance tuning.
• Production front-end experience with a modern framework (Vue/Nuxt, React or Angular) and TypeScript.
• Integration experience: REST and webhook design, OAuth2/OIDC, API versioning, and third-party systems such as ERP, payments or delivery platforms.
• Comfort with Docker, Kubernetes basics, CI/CD and observability tools such as Datadog.
• A product mindset: you start from the customer's outcome, push back when a request is not the real problem, and measure whether what you shipped is used. Clear written and spoken English, and the confidence to present to an engineering team and a restaurant group's executives on the same day.

Nice to Have

• Experience in restaurant tech, retail, POS, payments, loyalty or delivery aggregator integrations.
• A previous role as a Forward Deployed, Solutions, Integration or Customer Engineer at a product company.
• Building with LLMs and AI agents in production (prompting, tool use, evaluations), applied to customer workflows.
• Mobile exposure (Swift/SwiftUI, Kotlin, Flutter or React Native), or experience with super-app and mini-app models.
• Product analytics and instrumentation (Mixpanel, Snowflake, SQL-based analysis). Arabic, and experience working with customers in Saudi Arabia and the GCC.

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.