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 management teams to drive strategic initiatives forward across the region.
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You will be working on:
- Taking part in architectural decision-making on a platform that is used by millions of people.
- Actively participating in migrating our monolithic application into Microservices.
- Playing an active role in designing, improving, and securing the overall backend architecture to support massive growth in users and products without compromise.
- Dealing with Docker containers, Kubernetes manifests, all this on Google Cloud Platform.
- Coaching and mentoring other team members as a senior member of the team and member of our Backend Chapter.
- Embracing Design Driven Development, SOLID Principles, Event-driven Architecture, Algorithms, and automated tests (unit, integration, and functional).
- Understanding the development lifecycle and collaborating with cross-functional and agile teams.
- Participating in the continuous effort of test coverage, refactoring, and documentation.
- Demonstrating code review, debugging, and investigation skills regularly.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in backend development using GoLang, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Java, or Python.
- Strong database expertise with PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases.
- Solid understanding of normal forms, ACID principles, isolation levels, indexing, query optimization, and memory caching (e.g., Redis, Memcached).
- Proficiency in monitoring, alerting, and logging tools such as Grafana.
- Deep understanding of software architecture, including Domain-Driven Design (DDD), microservices, Kubernetes, and containerization.
- Experience with monolithic migration.
- Strong testing mindset with experience writing unit and integration tests to ensure code quality and reliability.
- Adaptability & problem-solving skills – Ability to navigate ambiguity and make informed decisions in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
