Founding Engineer

We are a startup, and we will be honest about it

We are an early-stage startup. We are small, we are funded by our first paying customer, and our budget is limited. We cannot match big-company salaries, and we will not pretend to.

What we can offer is what most jobs cannot: you build the core of a product from early on, you see your work running in a real restaurant within weeks, and you grow with the company. If you want a safe, well-defined job, this is not it. If you want to build something that matters and own it, read on.

What Lahza does

Lahza turns a restaurant's existing cameras into a team of digital supervisors. A small box on site runs the vision models. Our cloud platform turns what they see into one live view of every area, WhatsApp alerts for each manager and a nightly summary for the owner, linked to the point of sale. We are live today with a restaurant group in Jordan.

Privacy comes first: no face recognition, and recordings stay on site.

What you will own

• Our Python services and APIs, and the PostgreSQL database behind them, with every customer's data kept separate

• Deploys, rollbacks and monitoring (Docker), so the platform stays up during service hours

• The alerts and summaries that reach managers on WhatsApp

• The web dashboard (TypeScript and React), using AI coding tools where they help

• Code review and guidance for our junior engineers and interns

• Technical decisions: you shape how the platform grows from one client to many

Who we are looking for

• 3+ years building backend services that run in production

• Strong in Python, or strong in another backend language and ready to work in Python quickly

• Solid with PostgreSQL and Docker: you have deployed, broken and fixed real systems

• An entrepreneurial streak: you have built something on your own initiative (a side project, a product, a small startup) or owned work far beyond your ticket

• You care about impact: you want to see your code change how a real business runs

• Comfortable with uncertainty: priorities shift, and you decide and move

• Clear communication in Arabic and English

Nice to have: computer vision or video, edge devices (NVIDIA Jetson), React, or experience with restaurants or retail.

What we offer

• Share options for the right person, after a trial period

• Real ownership: the platform is yours, and your decisions ship

• Direct work with the founder, and room to grow into the technical lead as the team grows

• Experience you will not get elsewhere: edge AI, computer vision and live client deployments

• Remote within Jordan

How we hire

Fast, and fair to your time:

1. A 30-minute call with the founder

2. A short task on our real platform (3 to 5 days)

3. A decision within 48 hours of each step

How to apply

Apply with your CV and answer one question in a few lines: tell us about something you built on your own initiative, and what changed because of it.