The company is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team in Dubai. We laid a strong foundation upon which we’ve shipped our product, and we are seeking someone to help us build out innovative new features, prepare our technology to scale, and help shape our engineering organization into a desirable workplace for talent from across the region and the world.
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As our team is small, our ideal candidate is a creative thinker excited about solving hard problems and building something from the ground up. They should be able to move quickly, clearly articulate tradeoffs, and possess the judgment to own features independently. An obsession with delivering great, high-quality products to our users is essential. We are ambitious and excited to build big things, and we’d love to bring on someone who shares that passion. In short, we are looking for owners.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with world-class product, design, operations, and engineering teams to determine which features and solutions will deliver the most value for the business and the best experience for our users.
- Own and ship end-to-end reliable, scalable, and maintainable software that will keep our users’ funds safe and withstand the test of time. You will take features from design, to implementation, to polish, to shipping, to monitoring and measuring progress.
- Foster a high-performance culture by mentoring engineers, promoting best practices, and creating an environment where engineers can thrive and grow.
- Design and build a cloud-native platform while leveraging the main features for monitoring, observability, security, scalability, elasticity, and testing.
- Improve CI/CD workflows to reduce time-to-market for new features.
- Help shape our engineering culture by introducing good practices and methods of knowledge-sharing.
Requirements
- 6+ years developing software.
- Experience working on systems that handle money.
- Experience with Node.js, GraphQL, Postgres, ElasticSearch, or Kafka.
- Experience shipping and maintaining complex backends.
Key Skills and Characteristics
- Be an owner and a team player.
- Be curious and eager to grow.
- Be able to define and effectively communicate technical and design requirements.
- Be able to write clean, high-quality, testable, reusable, and well-documented code.
- Possess strong data-driven thinking and customer focus.
- Possess excellent communication skills and a desire to collaborate.
- Live in, or be willing to relocate to the UAE.
Our Tech Stack
- Typescript, Node.js and Nest.js for our main application’s backend.
- Swift/SwiftUI for our iOS app, Kotlin for our Android app.
- Next.js, React and Typescript for our web applications.
- GraphQL Federation for our client-facing APIs and Kafka for our inter-service communication.
- PostgresSQL for consistent and durable storage, Redis for quick fetching, and Elasticsearch for quick searching.
- AWS for hosting our cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes for orchestrating our workloads.
- Terraform for IaC.
- Github Actions for CI/CD.
