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A senior ai developer in NEOM is hard to find, expensive to keep and slow to onboard. Hiring me on a fixed-price engagement compresses that into weeks instead of quarters, with senior-only output from day one.

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AI Developer · NEOM
Field Build · KSA / 2026
01Why this engagement

Why NEOM operators commission this hire.

I'm a senior full-stack engineer who has shipped 100+ products. I work with NEOM founders and operators directly — no offshore handoffs, no junior team members hidden behind a salesperson.

02Commercials

Rates — fixed in SAR.

Day rate
From SAR 650/day
Project rate
Fixed-price by scope — predictable for finance
Cadence
Saudi business week (Sun–Thu) · WhatsApp-first
Invoicing
SAR · KSA entities · ZATCA-compliant
03What is covered

Scope of engagement.

  • Senior-only delivery — no junior hand-offs
  • Saudi business week (Sun–Thu), WhatsApp-first
  • SAR pricing, invoiced for KSA entities
  • Mada / Tabby / Tamara / ZATCA wired in
  • Arabic RTL UX done correctly
  • Full code + IP transfer on completion
04Process

How the engagement runs.

Discovery → proposal → milestone build → launch. Clear SAR pricing at every stage, weekly demo calls, and full IP transfer on completion.

Local Saudi stack for NEOM builds

Every Saudi engagement ships with the local payment, compliance and identity rails integrated from day one — no surprise vendor selection at the end of the build. NEOM operators expect Mada + Apple Pay as the default checkout, Tabby and Tamara as BNPL options, ZATCA Phase 2 e-invoicing on every invoice, and Arabic-first UX with proper RTL — and that's exactly what gets delivered.

Mada
Default KSA card rail
Apple Pay
Standard on Mada checkout
Tabby
BNPL — 4 instalments
Tamara
BNPL — Pay in 3
STC Pay
Wallet for younger demos
HyperPay
Gateway for enterprise
ZATCA Phase 2
Fatoora e-invoicing
Nafath
Government identity SSO
Absher
Citizen services bridge
Salla & Zid
Build-on-top or migrate-off

Why Saudi operators choose hiring senior engineers in NEOM

  • Senior delivery — the engineer who scopes the work is the same one who ships it. No junior hand-offs, no agency layers, no account managers between you and code.
  • Fixed SAR pricing per milestone — invoiced in SAR for KSA entities, with ZATCA-compliant tax invoices end-to-end. No surprise change-orders, no time-and-materials drift.
  • Saudi rails by default — Mada, Tabby, Tamara, STC Pay, ZATCA Phase 2 e-invoicing, Nafath SSO and bilingual EN/AR with proper RTL are part of the base scope, not phase 2 upsells.
  • KSA business week — Sun–Thu working pattern, WhatsApp-first communication on +44 7782 267774, and async standups that respect Riyadh time. Most operators get a same-day response inside business hours.
  • Full code + IP transfer on completion — production-grade Next.js / Postgres stack, documented, in your GitHub, with deployment that you own. No vendor lock-in.

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