Middle East
An engineering team that builds custom software, mobile apps and AI systems for companies across Riyadh, Jeddah and the wider Kingdom, working remotely from discovery through support.
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Companies in Saudi Arabia hiring a software development company outside the Kingdom are usually not choosing a remote vendor over a local one on price alone; they are choosing the team with the right specialist skills, wherever that team happens to sit. We work with founders, CTOs and operations leaders at Saudi-registered businesses across sectors that are actively investing in digital systems as part of the country's wider push to diversify beyond oil, from logistics operators to financial services firms.
A build for the Saudi market carries requirements that a generic engagement plan does not cover. Arabic is the primary interface language, designed first and tested first. Invoicing has a specific technical format once ZATCA's e-invoicing rules apply. Government-adjacent systems answer to the National Cybersecurity Authority's control set, not just general good practice. We treat these as first-class requirements from the scoping conversation, not a compliance pass bolted on before launch.
We are equally direct about what we are not: there is no office in Riyadh, no branch in Jeddah, no on-site presence to bill for. What exists is a team that has built for Saudi-based clients, understands SDAIA's data protection expectations and delivers on a schedule that lines up with the Kingdom's working week.
Services
Saudi buyers and end users expect Arabic as the primary interface, with English as the secondary option rather than the reverse. That changes the design process: right-to-left layout, Arabic typography and content review need to happen alongside the English build, not after it, and search visibility depends on Arabic-language SEO rather than an English keyword strategy translated after the fact.
Saudi organizations commonly work across both the Hijri and Gregorian calendars, and a system that only handles Gregorian dates will produce visibly wrong output the first time a Saudi user checks a due date, a reporting period or a public holiday. Booking systems, HR platforms and reporting dashboards all need explicit handling for both, with a clear default and a visible toggle rather than a silent conversion.
Card payments in Saudi Arabia run heavily through mada, the domestic debit scheme, alongside STC Pay as a widely used mobile wallet and SADAD for bill payments. Buy-now-pay-later through Tabby or Tamara sits alongside them on most consumer checkouts. A payment stack designed around international card networks alone misses a large share of how Saudi customers actually pay.
Public-sector and regulated-sector buyers reference the National Cybersecurity Authority's Essential Cybersecurity Controls and, for cloud-hosted systems, its Cloud Cybersecurity Controls, as the baseline they expect a vendor to design against. A generic answer about "strong security practices" does not satisfy a procurement conversation that names ECC or CCC controls directly.
Compliance
The Personal Data Protection Law, enforced by the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority, sets the country's core rules for collecting, processing and storing personal data, including consent and data-subject rights. We design data handling to it from the schema stage, not as a policy document written after launch.
The National Cybersecurity Authority's ECC framework sets baseline security requirements for organizations operating in the Kingdom, and government-related engagements typically expect a vendor to build against it explicitly.
For cloud-hosted systems tied to government or critical-sector work, the NCA's cloud-specific control set adds requirements on top of the ECC baseline, which shapes hosting region and provider choice as much as application-level security.
Government and several regulated sectors expect data to be hosted within Saudi Arabia rather than a generic international region, which we confirm during architecture planning rather than assuming a default cloud region will pass review.
The Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority's e-invoicing mandate requires invoices to be generated in a specific electronic format, with an integration phase that connects a business's invoicing system to ZATCA's platform. Any commerce or ERP build handling Saudi sales needs this built in rather than treated as a later add-on.
Nafath is the platform Saudi citizens and residents use to verify identity across government and a growing set of private-sector services, and we integrate it as an authentication option wherever a build needs verified identity rather than a self-attested account.
Working together
Saudi Arabia's working week runs Sunday through Thursday, with Friday and Saturday as the weekend. That overlaps with a Monday-to-Friday team on four working days, Monday through Thursday, while Sunday and Friday each fall inside one calendar's work week and outside the other's. We plan releases and reviews around the shared Monday-to-Thursday window and treat Sunday and Friday as asynchronous handoff days rather than assuming either side is universally available.
Invoices are issued in SAR, and for engagements that touch a client's own sales or billing systems, we build to ZATCA's e-invoicing format rather than a generic invoice PDF that would fail integration once the client's own compliance obligations kick in.
We sign a mutual NDA before reviewing systems, data or roadmap detail, so a scoping conversation never requires sharing more than a signed agreement covers.
The repository lives in the client's own account from day one, and intellectual property in custom-built code transfers on the payment terms set out in the contract, not held back until final delivery.
Services agreements are drafted for a team working remotely from outside the Kingdom, with no assumption of local incorporation or an on-site team, and no line item for office costs that do not exist.
Day-to-day progress runs through the client's own tools (ticket comments, recorded walkthroughs, written status updates), with a standing call inside the Sunday-to-Thursday overlap window reserved for decisions that need a live conversation rather than a written thread.
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FAQ
No. We work as a remote team for Saudi-based clients, with contracts, invoicing and communication structured around a fully remote engagement. Delivery, IP ownership and support work the same way they would with an in-house team, without a local branch to maintain.
Yes. We map what personal data a system collects, apply consent and data-subject rights consistent with the PDPL as enforced by SDAIA, and confirm data residency expectations before finalizing architecture, rather than treating privacy as a late-stage checklist.
Yes. We build invoice generation to ZATCA's required electronic format and connect it to the integration phase of the Fatoora platform where the client's business is in scope, so invoices produced by the system are compliant rather than needing manual reformatting afterward.
Yes. We add Nafath as an authentication option for applications that need verified identity, which is common for financial services, government-adjacent platforms and any system where a self-registered account is not sufficient assurance.
The two calendars overlap on four days, Monday through Thursday. We schedule reviews and releases inside that shared window and treat Friday and Sunday, which fall inside only one side's work week, as asynchronous days handled through written updates rather than live meetings.
Yes. These sit alongside international card networks and buy-now-pay-later options like Tabby and Tamara as standard payment methods on Saudi e-commerce and marketplace builds, and we design the checkout flow around all of them rather than card payments alone.
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