Regional food-delivery platform scaling microservices infrastructure across Saudi Arabia and Bahrain
HungerStation operates the largest online food-ordering network in the Middle East, connecting thousands of restaurants to consumers across Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. The tech stack spans Go, Java, Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, and GCP—a polyglot backend built for scale. Active projects reveal a critical inflection: breaking a monolithic application into microservices while simultaneously rolling out subscription models and optimizing pricing, indicating a shift from pure delivery volume toward retention and unit economics.
Notable leadership hires: Director of Engineering, Fintech Director
HungerStation is a food-delivery platform serving restaurants and end consumers across Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. The marketplace connects thousands of restaurant merchants to customers, providing ordering, logistics coordination, and merchant analytics. The product operates at scale sufficient to expose architectural constraints—the engineering pipeline is focused on decomposing legacy monoliths, hardening backend capacity for traffic spikes, and deepening post-order experience (tracking, communication, subscription features). Hiring is accelerating across engineering, product, and security, with notable open leadership roles in engineering and fintech.
Go, Java, Python, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, Memcached. Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, AWS, Terraform. Observability: Grafana, Datadog, New Relic. Also uses Braze for messaging and a SIEM for security.
Migrating from monolithic to microservices architecture, designing backend systems for growth, rolling out subscription and pricing-optimization features, improving post-order tracking and communication, and hardening 3PL logistics integration and compliance.
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