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Backend Engineer

Unlock employer Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Posted: 30 Mar 2026

Financial

  • Estimate: $60k - $80k*
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Relocation Support
  • Visa Provided

Requirements

  • Experience: Senior
  • English: Professional

Position

About the Job
The company is the leading fintech platform in Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC region with a mission to help people make their dreams come true by building the most customer-centric financial super-app on earth. The company serves millions of users in the region and partners with leading global and regional brands such as SHEIN, Jarir, noon, IKEA, and Amazon, as well as small and medium businesses.

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Your Role
We're seeking Backend Engineers for our team. As a Backend Engineer, you will be crucial in leading the way to build cutting-edge platforms that enable seamless and scalable transactions. Drawing on your proficiency in payment, shopping, and banking systems, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing our secure and robust software infrastructure to create unique experiences only the company can provide.
With a proven track record of managing cross-functional teams, you will collaborate with a diverse ecosystem of talented engineers, designers, analysts, product experts, and other team members to leverage system design, create technical solutions, dive deep into complex problems, and ultimately revolutionize the way millions of users shop, pay, and bank.

Your Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems across the company’s engineering teams.
  • Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
  • Work with engineers across the company to build delightful features that span various parts of the system.
  • Collaborate with our business, product, and operations teams to understand and solve our users’ pain points.

Your Expertise

  • You have 6+ years of software development experience.
  • You have strong software development experience building scalable products and services.
  • Good understanding of SOLID principles and Design Patterns.
  • Knowledge of AWS, OCI, Kubernetes/Docker.
  • Experience with distributed systems with messaging tools like Kafka or RabbitMQ.
  • Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
  • Knowledge of Javascript, Vue.js, HTML, and CSS is a plus.
  • You are proactive, goal-oriented, and self-structured in your approach.
  • Experience as a developer in a startup company is a plus.
  • You are a team player, creative thinker, and passionate about exploring new technologies.
  • Good written and spoken communication skills in English.

Location
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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