About the opportunity
We are looking for a highly talented Senior Backend Engineer to join our team in Riyadh. If you are looking for a place where you can gain hands-on experience and create a direct impact, then this may be the place for you! The ideal candidate will have a track record as a significant individual contributor as well as a strong team player, supporting a team and working closely with the management teams to drive strategic initiatives forward across the region.
Responsibilities
- Take part in architectural decision-making on a platform that is used by millions of people.
- Actively participate in migrating our monolithic application into Microservices.
- Play an active role in designing, improving, and most importantly securing the overall backend architecture to support massive growth in users and products without compromise.
- Deal with Docker containers, Kubernetes manifests, all this on Google Cloud Platform.
- Coach and mentor other team members as a senior member of the team and member of our Backend Chapter.
- Embrace Design Driven Development, SOLID Principles, Event-driven Architecture, Algorithms, and automated tests (unit, integration, and functional).
- Understand the development lifecycle and collaborate with cross-functional and agile teams.
- Participate in the continuous and common effort of test coverage, refactoring, and documentation.
- Showcase your code review, debugging, and investigation skills on a regular basis.
Requirements
- More than 4 years of experience in one of these programming languages: GoLang, RoR, Java, Node JS, .Net, or Python.
- Strong knowledge of common monitoring/alerting/logging tools such as Prometheus, New Relic, Datadog, ELK stack, and distributed tracing.
- Experience building complex, high-quality applications, with a strong knowledge of Domain Driven Design and microservice architecture.
- Proficiency in selecting from best practice Design Patterns and Design Principles when building Software Architectures and Algorithms.
- Good knowledge of databases (PostgreSQL and NoSQL), including awareness of normal forms, ACID, isolation levels, and index anatomy.
- Flexible and open-minded personality, comfortable working in a multicultural environment and in English.
- Familiarity with Docker & Kubernetes, GCP, AWS, terraform, and caching.
- Knowledge of TDD approach during development.
Who we are
Hungerstation is the first Saudi Food delivery App in the region! Established in 2012, Hungerstation enables you to browse the largest selection of restaurants and supermarkets in KSA, reaching over 35,000 options. We stand for our customers' satisfaction, partners’ loyalty, and riders’ well-being, with a vision of continuous expansion and improvement in our service platform. Hungerstation is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s leading local delivery platform operating in 70+ countries worldwide.
What's in it for you
- We offer relocation support globally to our permanent employees.
- Exchange ideas and meet 2000+ colleagues from different teams within Delivery Hero in our active guilds and global tech and product community.
- Develop your skills with a personal educational budget for conferences and external training.
- Access our e-learning platform LinkedIn and participate in various in-house training programs.
- And much more…
