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A software engineer for Saudi transformation programs, planned around your Sunday-to-Thursday week.

A software engineer for Saudi teams, working remotely from Mumbai on your Sunday-to-Thursday week, with four of your five working days overlapping fully with mine. It is for transformation programs and product teams that need data kept in the right place under the Personal Data Protection Law.

Cities
Riyadh
Work week
Sunday to Thursday
Invoices
SAR
Language
Arabic and English

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What teams in Saudi Arabia bring me

  1. Your platform processes personal data of people in the Kingdom and must follow the Personal Data Protection Law.

  2. A transformation program needs senior engineers who document decisions for stakeholders, not only ship code.

  3. Your product must work fully in Arabic, right to left, without feeling translated.

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Working with teams in Riyadh

Saudi Arabia works Sunday to Thursday and is two and a half hours behind India, so four of your five working days overlap fully with mine. Anything time-critical for a Sunday is planned in writing the week before.

Each city's 09:00–18:00 working day on the clock in Mumbai (UTC+5:30), in January and in July, so daylight saving is accounted for.

Shared hours with Riyadh
CityIn JanuaryIn July
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The rules that apply here: Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL)

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City pages for Saudi Arabia

  • Riyadh

    Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia

    I'm a senior software engineer working remotely from Mumbai, building SaaS platforms, AI and LLM features, security audits and integrations for Riyadh teams on transformation programmes, planned around a Sunday-to-Thursday week. Data residency is agreed at the start, and four of your five working days overlap fully with mine.

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Contracts and invoicing in Saudi Arabia

Invoices in Saudi riyals or US dollars, per milestone, paid through Wise or Payoneer. Data residency is agreed at the start, and I can work under your contract.

Tax and legal treatment depends on your company and country: confirm it with your accountant or counsel.

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Data protection and the rules that apply

Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL)

Enforceable since 14 September 2024 and supervised by the Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA), which has published implementing regulations and rules for transfers outside the Kingdom.

Source: SDAIA: Personal Data Protection Law

This is engineering guidance, not legal advice: confirm what applies to your business with your counsel.

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Where teams in Saudi Arabia usually start

  • Security audit and penetration test

    An attacker's view of your application and infrastructure, and a fix list you can act on.

    Price
    Fixed price per scope
    Timeline
    Agreed per project after scoping

  • SaaS development and web platforms

    Custom web applications, APIs and integrations, built to be inherited.

    Price
    Fixed-scope quote after a discovery call
    Timeline
    Scoped per project, agreed before work starts

  • Architecture review and due diligence

    An independent, written view of a system: what's solid, what's risky, and what it will cost to fix.

    Price
    Fixed price per scope
    Timeline
    Agreed per project after scoping

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Case studies behind this work

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Questions from teams in Saudi Arabia

How do you handle Sundays?

Four of your working days overlap with mine. Sunday questions are answered on Monday, so we plan anything time-critical around that.

Can our data stay in the Kingdom?

Yes, if we host in a Saudi cloud region and I work inside it. The PDPL's rules on transfers outside the Kingdom are part of the design review.

Do you work in Arabic?

I build Arabic-first interfaces, right to left. The Arabic copy should be written or reviewed by a native writer.

What does the Saudi PDPL require from a web platform?

The Personal Data Protection Law has been enforceable since 14 September 2024 and is supervised by the Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA), which has published implementing regulations and rules for transfers outside the Kingdom. For a web platform the practical questions are where personal data is stored and processed and what leaves the Kingdom, so I settle them in the design review before building. Your counsel confirms what the law requires of your business; the source is linked in the rules above, and the Riyadh page adds the city's hours.

Is data residency decided by the contract or by the hosting region?

Both, for different things. The hosting region decides where data is stored and processed: with a Saudi cloud region and me working inside it, it stays in the Kingdom, and cloud and DevOps work keeps backups, logs and monitoring data there too. The contract is where the choice is recorded: data residency is agreed at the start, before any code. Transfers outside the Kingdom follow SDAIA's rules, so confirm them with your counsel.

How do you document decisions for a transformation program?

Decisions are written down with their reasons in a daily or weekly update, and handover documentation is part of every engagement, so a stakeholder who wasn't in the room can follow what was decided and why. An architecture review adds a plain-language summary for decision-makers, and the guide to working with an engineer in India describes the rhythm I work in.

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