About The Opportunity
We are looking for a highly talented Senior Backend Engineer to join our team in Riyadh. If you are seeking a place where you can gain hands-on experience and create a direct impact, this may be the opportunity for you! The ideal candidate will have a proven track record as a significant individual contributor and a strong team player, supporting their colleagues and working closely with management teams to drive strategic initiatives across the region.
Key Responsibilities:
- Participate in architectural decision-making for a platform used by millions of people.
- Actively assist in migrating our monolithic application to Microservices.
- Play a vital role in designing, improving, and securing the overall backend architecture to support massive growth in users and products.
- Work with Docker containers, Kubernetes manifests, and Google Cloud Platform.
- Coach and mentor other team members as a senior member of the team and Backend Chapter.
- Embrace Design Driven Development, SOLID Principles, Event-driven Architecture, algorithms, and automated testing (unit, integration, and functional).
- Understand the development lifecycle and collaborate with cross-functional and agile teams.
- Contribute to test coverage, refactoring, and documentation efforts.
- Regularly demonstrate code review, debugging, and investigation skills.
Qualifications:
- More than 5 years of experience in programming languages such as GoLang, RoR, Java, or Python.
- Strong experience with common monitoring, alerting, and logging tools (Prometheus, New Relic, Datadog, ELK stack, and distributed tracing).
- Experience in building complex, high-quality applications and a solid understanding of Domain Driven Design and microservice architecture.
- Proficiency in selecting best practice Design Patterns and Design Principles in Software Architectures and algorithms.
- Good knowledge of databases (PostgreSQL and NoSQL), including awareness of normal forms, ACID, isolation levels, and index anatomy.
- A flexible and open-minded personality, comfortable working in a multicultural environment and fluent in English.
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, GCP, AWS, Terraform, and caching.
- Experience using a Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach during development.
About HungerStation
HungerStation is the first Saudi food delivery app, established in 2012. Today, we enable browsing of the largest selection of restaurants and supermarkets in Saudi Arabia, with over 35,000 options. We are committed to customer satisfaction, partner loyalty, and the well-being of our riders, alongside our vision for expansion and service excellence. HungerStation is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world's leading local delivery platform operating in over 70 countries worldwide.
What We Offer
- Visa and relocation support globally for permanent employees.
- Opportunities to exchange ideas and meet colleagues from various teams within Delivery Hero.
- Personal educational budgets for conferences and external training.
- Access to our e-learning platform and participation in various in-house training programs.
- And much more!
