Frontend Software Engineer - Saudi Only

Role Overview

Frontend Software Engineer at Lucidya, a leading AI-powered Customer Experience Management platform in the MENA region. This role is strictly open to Saudi nationals only.

Company Overview

Lucidya is a leading AI-powered Customer Experience Management (CXM) platform in the MENA region, enabling enterprises to understand, engage, and serve their customers across digital channels at scale. The company is scaling toward IPO-scale engineering.

Role Purpose

Build and maintain high-quality user experiences on a real enterprise platform operating at significant scale. Take ownership of features from requirement through production, using modern frontend technologies and AI-assisted development practices to deliver maintainable, scalable solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Modern Frontend Development

• Build and maintain production-grade web applications using React, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
• Develop reusable, maintainable, and scalable frontend components.
• Turn product requirements and designs into clean, intuitive, and responsive user experiences.
• Integrate frontend applications with REST APIs and real-time communication services.
• Work with WebSockets and Socket.IO to build real-time user experiences.
• Understand and work with event-driven flows connected to RabbitMQ and backend messaging systems.
• Handle real-time updates, reconnection scenarios, error states, and synchronization between live events and UI state.
• Manage server state efficiently using React Query or TanStack Query.
• Manage complex client-side state using Redux or Redux Toolkit when appropriate.
• Contribute to improving frontend architecture, performance, code organization, and maintainability.

Quality & Testing

• Write reliable unit and integration tests using Jest.
• Build and maintain end-to-end tests using Playwright.
• Test work thoroughly before considering it complete.
• Participate actively in code reviews and learn from feedback.
• Identify regressions, edge cases, and potential production issues before they reach users.
• Debug issues systematically and focus on root causes rather than temporary workarounds.
• Write code that is easy for other engineers to understand, review, test, and maintain.

AI-Enabled Engineering

• Use AI coding tools effectively to research, prototype, implement, debug, test, and refactor solutions faster.
• Provide AI tools with the right context, requirements, and constraints to generate useful results.
• Critically review and validate AI-generated code instead of accepting it blindly.
• Use AI to automate repetitive work and spend more time solving meaningful engineering problems.
• Continuously explore better AI-assisted workflows that improve productivity and engineering velocity.
• Maintain high standards for quality, security, performance, and maintainability, regardless of whether code was written manually or with AI assistance.

Ownership & Collaboration

• Take ownership of work from understanding the requirement through implementation, testing, review, and production.
• Communicate clearly when requirements are unclear or when you identify technical risks.
• Collaborate closely with frontend engineers, backend engineers, QA, product managers, and designers.
• Ask questions when necessary while developing the ability to investigate and unblock yourself.
• Give and receive constructive feedback during code reviews and technical discussions.
• Help teammates when needed and actively share what you learn.
• Take responsibility for the quality of what you ship.
• Treat the product as something you own, not simply a collection of assigned tickets.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely related field.
• 0–2 years of professional frontend development experience.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience building applications with React.
• Good understanding of TypeScript and type-safe development.
• Good understanding of React fundamentals, including components, hooks, state management, rendering, and component lifecycle.
• Experience integrating frontend applications with APIs and handling asynchronous data.
• Familiarity with React Query or TanStack Query and Redux or Redux Toolkit.
• Understanding of frontend testing and experience with Jest and Playwright.
• Familiarity with real-time frontend architectures using WebSockets or Socket.IO.
• Basic understanding of message queues and event-driven systems, especially RabbitMQ.
• Understanding of common real-time challenges such as reconnection, duplicate events, stale data, race conditions, and keeping UI state synchronized.
• Solid understanding of HTML, CSS, responsive design, and browser fundamentals.
• Familiarity with Git and collaborative development workflows.
• Ability to debug problems rather than only work around them.
• Ability to write clean, readable, and maintainable code.
• Practical experience using AI tools to improve software engineering productivity.
• Strong willingness to learn and continuously improve.
• Good communication and teamwork skills.

Skills & Competencies

• React
• JavaScript (ES6+)
• TypeScript
• React Query or TanStack Query
• Redux or Redux Toolkit
• Jest
• Playwright
• WebSockets or Socket.IO
• RabbitMQ
• REST APIs
• Git
• Modern AI-assisted development tools
• HTML and CSS
• Responsive design
• Browser fundamentals
• Debugging and problem-solving
• Code review and feedback incorporation
• Collaboration and knowledge-sharing

Additional Information

First-Month Success Expectations

• Understand the frontend codebase, architecture, and development workflow.
• Deliver production features with increasing independence.
• Write clean and maintainable code that requires fewer review iterations over time.
• Build appropriate automated tests for features you develop.
• Work confidently with REST APIs and increasingly understand the real-time architecture.
• Debug frontend and integration issues effectively.
• Use AI tools to noticeably improve development speed and productivity while maintaining engineering quality.
• Participate meaningfully in technical discussions and code reviews.
• Collaborate effectively with your squad and other engineering teams.
• Become someone teammates can rely on to own and finish work properly.

Why Join Lucidya

• Work on a real enterprise platform operating at significant scale across the MENA region.
• Build products used by major organizations and large customer-service teams.
• Work on an AI-native product where AI is part of both the platform and the engineering workflow.
• Gain hands-on experience with real-time systems, WebSockets, RabbitMQ, APIs, and complex frontend applications.
• Learn from experienced engineers while having meaningful ownership early in your career.
• Work with modern frontend technologies and engineering practices.
• Solve real problems involving performance, real-time experiences, large datasets, and complex enterprise workflows.
• Join Lucidya during an important stage of growth as the company builds toward IPO-scale engineering.
• Real scale with billions of events, not toy systems.
• Direct impact at CTO and executive level.